Australia plans total ban on social media for under-16s
"Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it"
The Australian government is planning to lock most children out of social media completely, backed by a general purpose age-verification system of the kind that can be put to other uses.
Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as part of a range of…
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