Sydney:
Australia will transfer to move new legal guidelines banning youngsters underneath 16 from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated Thursday, vowing to crack down on tech firms failing to guard younger customers.
“This one is for the mums and dads. Social media is doing actual hurt to children and I am calling time on it,” he informed reporters.
Albanese first mooted a social media age restrict earlier this 12 months, however it’s the first time he has put a agency quantity on it.
Tech giants and social media platforms will bear the duty for guaranteeing customers are sufficiently old, Albanese stated, reasonably than mother and father who have been “frightened sick in regards to the security of their children on-line”.
“The onus is not going to be on mother and father or younger individuals. There might be no penalties for customers.”
Earlier proposals to introduce a social media age restrict have loved broad bipartisan help in Australia.
Albanese stated the brand new legal guidelines can be offered to state and territory leaders this week, earlier than being launched to parliament in late November.
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