Sydney:
US billionaire Elon Musk, proprietor of social media platform X, has criticised Australia’s proposed regulation to ban social media for kids below 16 and fantastic social media platforms of as much as A$49.5 million ($32 million) for firms for systemic breaches.
Australia’s centre-left authorities on Thursday launched the invoice in parliament. It plans to attempt an age-verification system to implement a social media age cut-off, a number of the hardest controls imposed by any nation to this point.
“Looks like a backdoor strategy to management entry to the Web by all Australians,” Musk, who views himself as a champion of free speech, stated in a reply late on Thursday to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s put up on X in regards to the invoice.
A number of nations have already vowed to curb social media use by kids by laws, however Australia’s coverage might develop into some of the stringent with no exemption for parental consent and pre-existing accounts.
France final yr proposed a ban on social media for these below 15 however allowed parental consent, whereas the US has for many years required expertise firms to hunt parental consent to entry the information of kids below 13.
Musk has beforehand clashed with Australia’s centre-left Labor authorities over its social media insurance policies and had known as it “fascists” over its misinformation regulation.
In April, X went to an Australian courtroom to problem a cyber regulator’s order for the elimination of some posts in regards to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, prompting Albanese to name Musk an “conceited billionaire”.
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