Sydney:
Australia will transfer to cross new legal guidelines banning youngsters beneath 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 instructed 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 accountability for making certain customers are sufficiently old, Albanese stated, relatively than dad and mom who had been “fearful sick concerning the security of their children on-line”.
“The onus won’t be on dad and mom or younger folks. There will probably be no penalties for customers.”
Earlier proposals to introduce a social media age restrict have loved broad bipartisan assist 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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