key details missing
The federal government today introduced into parliament legislation for its social media ban for people under 16 years.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said:
This is about protecting young people, not punishing or isolating them, and letting parents know we’re in their corner when it comes to supporting their children’s health and wellbeing.
Up until now details of how the ban would actually work have been scarce. Today’s bill provides a more complete picture.
But many ambiguities – and problems – still remain.
What’s in the bill?
Today’s bill is an amendment of the Online Safety Act.
It introduces a new definition for an “age-restricted social media platform” whose sole or significant purpose is to enable users to post material online and interact socially with other users.
This includes platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, but also many more minor platforms and services. It includes an exclusion framework that exempts messaging apps such as WhatsApp, online gaming platforms and services with the “primary purpose of supporting the health and education of end-users” (for example, Google Classroom).
The bill will attempt to force owners of newly defined age-restricted platforms to take “reasonable steps” to prevent people under 16 from having a user account. This will include young people who have an existing account. There are no grandfather provisions so it is unclear how platforms will be required to manage the many millions of existing users who are now set to be excluded and deplatformed.
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