World-first social media ban on children in 'Land of Kangaroos' makes global headlines
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Australia's social media ban for children makes headlines around the world, including as far away as Russia, as articles question how it could work and whether similar laws would be introduced elsewhere.

Hi Lemmy.World Admins and Support Staff,

I like this place a lot and wanted to give you a heads up pollies down under passed some new laws.

The govt wants a ban on social media for everyone under 16. This week was the last sitting week of parliament and a few bills were passed by both houses and are set to become law. (See link).

I’m not after any immediate reaction or actions, but looking to bring it to your attention for you to discuss (edit:internally) how you would react. I haven’t seen the legislation and don’t know how this is meant to be mechanized and it seems pretty hard to do.

Some other tech giants have already made statements as this appears to be a worldwide first.

Edit: I might have a look at the laws text and put some details here as a comment

-AnAustralianPhotographer

  • RobotToaster
    1·
    20 hours ago

    For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(a)(i), online social interaction includes online interaction that enables end-users to share material for social purposes.

    Well that clears things up…

    Now they just need to define “social purposes”.

    • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      They seem more concerned with making sure businesses won’t have issues.

      Note 1: Online social interaction does not include (for example) online business interaction

      If retailers though they might have issues just because they let customers post product reviews there would have been a fell funded campaign against the legislation.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      20 hours ago

      If you can send arbitrary text and other people can read it, some of the things you can type must qualify as “social purposes”. Pretty sure they are meaning to include just about the whole interactable internet under this.