Merchandise 1 of two A lady poses holding her telephone after an interview discussing Australia’s social media ban for customers beneath 16, which is scheduled to take impact on December 10, in Sydney, Australia, November 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photograph
[1/2]A lady poses holding her telephone after an interview discussing Australia’s social media ban for customers beneath 16, which is scheduled to take impact on December 10, in Sydney, Australia, November 22, 2025. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photograph Purchase Licensing Rights
SYDNEY, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Australia’s web regulator mentioned a teen social media ban could be the primary domino to fall in a world push to rein in Big Tech, as Meta’s Instagram, Fb and Threads started locking out lots of of 1000’s of accounts forward of a deadline subsequent week.
eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant mentioned she had initially expressed concern concerning the “blunt-force” method of blocking under-16s from social media however she had come to embrace it after incremental regulatory modifications weren’t efficient sufficient.
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