{"id":622328,"date":"2025-12-09T14:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:34:23","slug":"australias-world-first-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-comes-into-effect-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622328\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s comes into effect – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘As a young person with a disability, banning social media will make my world smaller’published at 13:55 GMT<\/p>\n

13:55 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Gabriela Pomeroy<\/strong>
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"Ezra<\/p>\n

Ezra Sholl, 15, from Melbourne, is quadriplegic and says social media has given him access to a community of like-minded people.<\/p>\n

Ezra was diagnosed with Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, which triggered a rare nerve condition that has paralysed him.<\/p>\n

“I follow the NBA, Australian rules football, I follow movie accounts and music accounts,” he says ahead of the ban coming into effect.<\/p>\n

“Banning social media will make my world smaller,” he tells me via Facebook messenger. (Facebook is one of the platforms affected by the new rules<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Social media accounts connect him with his friends, he says. “As a young person with a disability, taking away access to social media has the potential to cause harm as well.”<\/p>\n

He agrees that social media can cause harm to young people, but “social media companies owe a duty to make their platforms safe. The ban itself is a band aid solution that doesn\u2019t actually fix the issues”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘As a young person with a disability, banning social media will make my world smaller’published at 13:55 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-622328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115690109109346652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}