Australia says the world will follow social media ban

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Australia's internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push to rein in Big Tech, as Meta's Instagram, Facebook and Threads began locking out hundreds of thousands of accounts ahead of a deadline next week.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00but I think this is we've reached a tipping point where something more forceful needed to be done so

00:13you're thinking change these are surveillance devices we've given we've we are commodified

00:20our data is the currency that fuels these companies today and there are these powerful harmful deceptive

00:29design features that even adults are powerless to fight against like autoplay and endless squirrel and

00:35snap streets so what chance do our children have I've always referred to this as the first domino

00:42which is why they push back they did push back pretty vigorously and one of the companies instead

00:51of implementing the age assurance we're spending time lobbying the European Commission

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