The social media ban is coming, whether families like it or not: 5 ways to prepare kids and teens (theconversation.com)

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In less than four months, world-first legislation will ban Australian under-16s from certain social media platforms.

Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, X, Reddit and YouTube will all be off limits for children and teens.

It’s still not clear exactly how the restrictions will be implemented. But the federal government says social media platforms must take “reasonable steps” to delete the accounts of minors before or on December 10 and stop them from creating new accounts through age verification software.

Parents will not be able to give their consent to allow under-16s to use these platforms.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I'm hoping kids will discover the Fediverse and the dark net. Banning that will become quite the headache for the government. Whether they'll be able to even technically ban something like I2P or TOR, I don't know.

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