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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