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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans in the country on Wednesday to ban social media for children under the age of 16, saying, “Social media is harming our children, and I demand that it stop.”
Albanese said the proposed legislation will enter parliament this year and will come into effect a year after lawmakers ratify it, adding that there will be no exceptions to parental consent. This means that platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Reuters report.
Australia’s approach is among the most stringent in the world, but many other countries are moving in the same direction. Prime Minister of Norway last month She said the country would soon impose a maximum age for social media use of 15 instead of 13, saying it needed to campaign more aggressively against profit-driven technology companies that “fight the brains of young children.”
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