{"id":961913,"date":"2025-09-16T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961913"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:34:15","slug":"australia-says-social-media-ban-will-not-age-test-all-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/australia-says-social-media-ban-will-not-age-test-all-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia says social media ban will not age test all users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will not require social media giants to verify the ages of all users under its ban on under-16s using the platforms, Canberra said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>But platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are expected to take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to stop children from accessing the apps, it said. <\/p>\n<p>Australia has been a leader in global efforts to prevent internet harm, but current legislation offers almost no details on how the ban will be enforced &#8212; prompting concern among experts that it will simply be a symbolic piece of unenforceable legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will not require social media giants to verify the ages of all users under its ban on under-16s using the platforms, Canberra said Tuesday. But platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are expected to take &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; to stop children from accessing the apps, it said. Australia has been a leader in global efforts to prevent internet harm, but current legislation offers almost no details on how the ban will be enforced &#8212; prompting concern among experts that it will simply be a symbolic piece of unenforceable legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}