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Australia will become the first country to ban social media accounts for users under 16 starting December 10, Communications Minister Anika Wells announced. The government plans to monitor “migratory patterns” to prevent teens from shifting to other platforms. Compliance checks begin December 11, with a two-year review planned to assess the ban’s impact. Wells called teenage addiction a deliberate design feature by tech companies.  #Australia #SocialMediaBan #Under16Ban #TeenSocialMedia #AnikaWells #DigitalSafety

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00:00Step up. They know and we know that this will not be perfect but for live in one

00:10week Australia will become the first country in the world to ban under 16s

00:15from having social media accounts. With one law we can protect Generation Alpha

00:22from being sucked into purgatory by predatory algorithms described by the

00:27men who created the feature as behavioural cocaine. Two years ago I stood on this

00:34stage to outline Labor's aged care reform. E-Safety will watch and respond to migratory

00:40patterns and if LinkedIn becomes a secret online meeting place for under 16s I will

00:45not hesitate to act. And E-Safety will be conducting an evidence-based evaluation of

00:51the impacts of the law, good and bad, intended and unintended, to inform the

00:56government's two-year statutory review.

00:59Cat on previously secret strategies by social media giants.

01:03Like I said this is, this law isn't set and forget we're always going to look at ways

01:07to improve it but I think for the most part this is about changing the

01:11responsibility and the onus to being what do social media platforms owe us as

01:16their users as they seek to operate in our country.

01:19Yes, there will still be kids with accounts on 10 December and probably for some...

01:24I find it outright weird that YouTube is always at pains to remind us all how unsafe their platform

01:33is in a not in a logged out state and if YouTube even this morning is reminding us all that it is not

01:40safe and that there is content not appropriate for age restricted users on their website then that

01:45is a problem that YouTube needs to fix.

01:48These platforms internal drive is executed through aggressive divisive content that who is getting

01:54slapped with the first 50 million dollar fine on 10 December?

01:58The bureaucrats in this room will back me up here.

02:00Regulation rarely acts fast and certainly not that fast.

02:04Information gathering and enforcement powers lay with the E-Safety Commission.

02:10But what you can expect on 11 December is that E-Safety will send notices to the 10 platforms

02:16we have named in our dynamic list. These notices will seek evidence including how many underage

02:21accounts they had on 9 December before the law started and on 11 December after the law started.

02:27Those platforms will have time to reply before the next round of information requests are sent out

02:32asking for updated numbers every month for six months.

02:36...targeted algorithms, persistent notifications, toxic population...

02:43Teenage addiction was not a bug, it was a design feature. And on 10 December there are going to

02:49be withdrawal symptoms. Teenagers will be upset, some will fight to get back on, some will manage to

02:56find their way around the tech and keep their accounts. But I truly believe the short-term discomfort

03:03will be worth the long-term benefits. Many kids don't tell their parents about seeing harmful content

03:08on social media, often because they're worried their parents will over-react and maybe deny access.

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