Australia introduces a bill in Parliament to ban children younger than 16 from social media; companies would face fines of up to AU$50M for systemic violations
www.crikey.com.au/20... Cameron Wilson / @cameronwilson.bsky.social : The Communication Department's analysis of the under 16yo social media ban cites two sources: — a study which has findings that its co-author says do not support the case for a teen ban — the US Surgeon-General's advice ... which if you read is actually a reference to the first study … Josh Taylor / @joshtaylor.bsky.social : Despite all the noise the parliamentary inquiry on social media did not make a recommendation to ban under 16s from social media. www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Brendan Keogh / @brkeogh.bsky.social : It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea. [embedded post] X: David Shoebridge / @davidshoebridge : The social media age ban has landed and it's a dogs breakfast. It bans young people creating age appropriate accounts with controls like no DMs, limits on ads, data restrictions. The obvious outcome is many will simply use an adult account with none of those protections. Pauline Hanson / @paulinehansonoz : Labor and the Liberals, the “Uniparty”, are rushing through a Bill to ban kids under 16 from social media. But this isn't just about kids and the internet. This is a dangerous step toward greater government control over every part of your life. While digital ID legislation [video] Senator Gerard Rennick / @senatorrennick : More government overreach. This week I spoke against the proposed bill to ban 16 year olds from social media. A simple search on Google (see attached in comments) shows that it is completely unnecessary for the government to be regulating social media use as there are a range [video] David Shoebridge / @davidshoebridge : I'm certain that on closer review even more problems will come out. We are watching a political thought bubble pretending to be policy and it's about to pop Forums: r/worldnews : A social media ban for children younger than 16 is introduced in Australia's Parliament
another part of the teen social media ban: the Communications Minister says that it will apply to X, formerly Twitter, perhaps setting up another fight with Elon Musk who I doubt would be too excited to abide by Australia's age verification rules ia.acs.org.au/articl...
fun tidbit: Jonathan Haidt, author of the widely popular book the Anxious Generation that inspired a global push to ban teens from social media but has also faced criticism from academics, met with the SA Premier and advised him on how to do a teen social media ban. [embedded po…
Staffer emails show how an event Anthony Albanese said was about consulting on the teen social media ban was actually run with the “intent of building momentum and support for national legislation to enforce a minimum age for access to social media” — www.crikey.com.au/20...
The Communication Department's analysis of the under 16yo social media ban cites two sources: — a study which has findings that its co-author says do not support the case for a teen ban — the US Surgeon-General's advice ... which if you read is actually a reference to the first…
Despite all the noise the parliamentary inquiry on social media did not make a recommendation to ban under 16s from social media. www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...
It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea. [embedded post…
The social media age ban has landed and it's a dogs breakfast. It bans young people creating age appropriate accounts with controls like no DMs, limits on ads, data restrictions. The obvious outcome is many will simply use an adult account with none of those protections.
Labor and the Liberals, the “Uniparty”, are rushing through a Bill to ban kids under 16 from social media. But this isn't just about kids and the internet. This is a dangerous step toward greater government control over every part of your life. While digital ID legislation [video…
More government overreach. This week I spoke against the proposed bill to ban 16 year olds from social media. A simple search on Google (see attached in comments) shows that it is completely unnecessary for the government to be regulating social media use as there are a range [vi…
I'm certain that on closer review even more problems will come out. We are watching a political thought bubble pretending to be policy and it's about to pop