{"id":37351,"date":"2024-11-28T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=37351"},"modified":"2024-11-28T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T17:34:11","slug":"australia-bans-social-media-use-for-children-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/australia-bans-social-media-use-for-children-under-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Bans Social Media Use for Children Under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r3697043984921843154-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Australia passed a law on Thursday banning social media use for children under the age of 16, positioning Canberra as a leader in imposing one of the strictest legal measures targeting major tech companies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Reuters, the new law mandates that major tech platforms, including Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook, as well as TikTok, prevent minors from logging into their platforms. Non-compliance could result in fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (32 million U.S. dollars).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A trial phase for enforcing the law is set to begin in January 2025, with the full ban coming into effect a year later.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This legislation places Australia at the forefront of global efforts to impose age restrictions on social media use amid growing concerns about the platforms&#8217; effects on young people&#8217;s mental health.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Australia passed a law on Thursday banning social media use for children under the age of 16, positioning Canberra as a leader in imposing one of the strictest legal measures targeting major tech companies. According to Reuters, the new law mandates that major tech platforms, including Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37352,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37351\/revisions\/37352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}