The ban has garnered worldwide attention, with several nations indicating they will adopt a ban of their own, including Malaysia, Denmark and Norway. The European Union passed a resolution to adopt similar restrictions, while a spokesperson for the British government told Reuters it was “closely monitoring Australia’s approach to age restrictions”.
Inman Grant told the Guardian that from Thursday, she would be sending notices to the platforms covered by the ban to find out how the implementation was progressing.
Questions included “how many accounts [they’ve] deactivated or removed, what challenges they’re finding, how they’re preventing recidivism and preventing circumvention, whether or not their abuse or reporting abuse and the appeals processes are working as planned”, she said.
Why only ban it for kids…
I mostly see vague reasons about mental health and social media addiction in kids linked in the article.
Guess it’s like drinking, it’s bad for everyone, but telling adults to stop drinking didn’t work. It’s easier to ban kids.
It’s good they’re going to collect data over different metrics, which means we’ll at least learn if it’s a positive thing or not.