Australian teens have just days left on Instagram and Facebook as Meta launches an unprecedented purge of underage users to comply with world-first laws.
Children on Instagram, Facebook and Threads will start losing access to their accounts from December 4 – a week before Australia’s world-leading laws come into effect.
From Thursday, Meta will start contacting users it understands to be 13-15 and telling them via in-app messages, email and text that they will soon lose access to their accounts.
They will be told they can download and save their posts, messages and Reels and update their contact details so they can easily reactivate their accounts when they turn 16, or opt to delete their accounts.
Of course we’re going to be told off by Trumpy and his tech bro mates over these laws.
These are laws done on the run, and well under done. No responsibility is put on the parents to do some parenting, and these will be circumvented very quickly.
The next step will be handing over our IDs to get permission to access social media like they are doing, or planning to do, in the UK. China will be proud.
And just when people thought that was all of the platforms sorted, look what also made the list…
New guidance from eSafety places Twitch under stricter controls from December as officials push platforms to understand their responsibilities under Australia’s social media age laws.
Well deserved. People under 16 think they’ll be able to circumvent the YouTube Under-16 ban thing to start their careers but now the government has realised this and has decided to stop them from doing so. Which platform will get added to the list next? Odysee?
