including Reddit<\/a>, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube.<\/p>\nBan \u2018doesn\u2019t add up\u2019<\/p>\n
A number of young people and advocates have expressed concerns about the implementation of the new ban, including journalist and founder of youth news service 6 News Australia Leo Puglisi, 18, who told an Australian senate inquiry that young people \u201cdeeply care\u201d about the ban and its potential implications.<\/p>\n
Puglisi says that many of the people who engage with 6 News are young people who find their content on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think young people do have the right to be informed,\u201d he told the inquiry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re saying that a 15 year old can\u2019t access any news or political information on social media. I just don\u2019t think that that adds up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australian Senator David Shoebridge, has expressed concerns that \u201can estimated 2.4 million young people will be kicked off social media accounts\u2026\u00a0just as school holidays start.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m deeply concerned about the impacts on the ban including on young people\u2019s mental health and privacy,\u201d Shoebridge wrote in a recent post on X.<\/p>\n
John Pane, from Electronic Frontiers Australia, also told a senate inquiry that the new legislation creates new risks, while trying to address other issues.<\/p>\n
While Pane acknowledged the ban seeks to address young people potentially seeing \u201cunsuitable content\u201d online, he says it also creates a new \u201cfar greater, systemic risk\u201d of \u201cpotential mass collection of children\u2019s and adults\u2019 identity data.\u201d<\/p>\n
This will further increase \u201cthe data stores and financial positions of big tech and big data and increasing cyber risk on a very significant scale,\u201d Pane said.<\/p>\n
Since most Australians aged under 16 don\u2019t yet have official government ID, social media companies are planning to require some users to verify their age by recording videos of themselves.<\/p>\n
Other countries mull similar bans<\/p>\n
There is keen interest in whether Australia\u2019s sweeping restrictions can work as regulators around the globe wrestle with the mixed dangers and benefits of social media.<\/p>\n
In New Zealand, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is planning to introduce a similar bill to restrict children\u2019s social media use.<\/p>\n
Indonesia has also said\u00a0it is preparing legislation to protect young people<\/a> from \u201cphysical, mental, or moral perils\u201d.<\/p>\nIn Europe, the Dutch government has advised parents to forbid children under 15 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Soon, you\u2019ll no longer be able to use Facebook\u2019, Meta said in messages it sent to young people…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":391477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13214,4740,64,712,50,27016,345,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-391476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-internet","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-privacy","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115580244063678144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}