'This is world leading,' says Australia PM as under 16s social media ban comes into force

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Australia on Wednesday (Dec 10) became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Instagram and Facebook with the Prime Minister calling it "world leading" and "a proud day".  Ten of the biggest platforms were ordered to block children from midnight (1300 GMT on Tuesday) or face fines of up to A$49.5 million ($33 million) under the new law  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Well, this is a day in which my pride to be Prime Minister of Australia has never been

00:18greater. This is world leading. This is Australia showing enough is enough. And the world, including

00:29through, I note, some leading media global organisations who are here, just to confirm

00:37is watching, is watching and is following. But Australia is leading. And it's leading

00:45not because of actions of my government. It is leading because of some of the heroes

00:52who are behind me and who are joining us here today. This is indeed a proud day to

01:00be Australian. Because make no mistake, this reform will change lives. For Australian kids

01:09and allowing them to just have their childhood. For Australian parents, enabling them to have

01:17greater peace of mind. But also for the global community who are looking at Australia and

01:25saying, well, if Australia can do it, why can't we?

01:30We deserve time with real people to learn body language, tone, empathy and all the social cues

01:35you can't get from a screen. We also deserve boredom too. Because boredom is what makes our

01:42friends spark creativity and think of big ideas. Australia, a continent so far away and now

01:51yet so far ahead when it comes to online safety. December 10 will be remembered as a moment that

01:58sparked a movement.

02:12a movement of no doubt about that.

02:13in том, world of a global community. And we can't get that many of them yet. And now

02:15of course, we can have to say, well, try to think of you. We're not, how we are.

02:18in terms of ordinary people of a global community. We need to learn how we can manage your

02:21power to help you. And then we're in terms of what we have for the working

02:21of our community. We are from a global community who are going

02:23to help you, and it's what we need to do to learn, how we can manage your

02:24to live in our lives. We are going to learn about this now. So we are also going to

02:27to just find ourselves a place that we can bring back together. We are going to

02:28to learn how we have a world of a community. We are going to be able to learn a world

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