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Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s

Thursday November 7, 2024. 12:09 PM , from BoingBoing
Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s
The Australian government is planning to lock most children out of social media completely, backed by a general purpose age-verification system of the kind that can be put to other uses.

Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as part of a range of measures that include some of the toughest controls imposed by any country to date.

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