Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
- Written by Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
The federal parliament has passed legislation to ban people under 16 from having an account with some social media platforms.
In doing so, it has ignored advice from a chorus of experts – and from the Australian Human Rights Commission, which said the government rushed the legislation through parliament “without...