Sydney:
Australia will transfer to go new legal guidelines banning youngsters below 16 from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese mentioned Thursday, vowing to crack down on tech corporations 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 yr, however it’s the first time he has put a agency quantity on it.
Tech giants and social media platforms will bear the accountability for guaranteeing customers are sufficiently old, Albanese mentioned, moderately than mother and father who had been “frightened sick in regards to the security of their children on-line”.
“The onus won’t be on mother and father or younger folks. There shall be no penalties for customers.”
Earlier proposals to introduce a social media age restrict have loved broad bipartisan assist in Australia.
Albanese mentioned the brand new legal guidelines could be introduced to state and territory leaders this week, earlier than being launched to parliament in late November.
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