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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery
(theconversation.com)
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The bill does say what it covers:
Broad as usual, but basically from my understanding any website thats primary purpose is user to user communication of some form, unless its a messaging, health, or gaming orientated service. Also the minister can directly exclude services as they see fit.
How the system is actually going to work seems to be all up to the eSafety Commissioner and this bill seems to just to say, your job is to make this happen with XYZ requirements, and here are the penalties if someone doesn't comply once it's implemented.
Yep: I followed up yesterday when the act had been uploaded. It wasn't online on Thursday when I made that comment. Or if it was online, Google hadn't yet indexed it.