Australia's government introduced a bill in Parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Beijing on a world's-first piece of legislation.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, criticized proposed legislation in Australia that aims to ban social media for children under 16. Australia plans to trial an age-verification system that may include biometrics or government identification to prevent children and young teenagers from accessing social media platforms such as X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, with companies liable to be fined up to 50 million Australian dollars if there are systemic breaches.
Other countries have tried to impose limits on social media for children, including the United States which requires technology companies to obtain parental consent to collect data from children under 13. But the Australian proposal goes further, setting the world’s highest age limit at 16 and providing no exemptions for parental consent or pre-existing accounts. This is not the first time Musk has been publicly critical of the Australian government over tech regulation.
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