MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s communications minister introduced
a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children under 16
from social media, saying online safety was one of parents’ toughest challenges.

Michelle Rowland said TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram were
among the platforms that would face fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars
($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.

“This bill seeks to set a new normative value in society that accessing social media
is not the defining feature of growing up in Australia,” Rowland told Parliament.

“There is wide acknowledgement that something must be done in the immediate
term to help prevent young teens and children from being exposed to streams of
content unfiltered and infinite,” she added.

If only parents could take care of this instead of the government....

I’m curious how they’d enforce a rule like that without grabbing even more ID data from everyone. Feels like it raises bigger questions about rights and government limits than it solves.

Trace the IP address or ping the location to a residential address.  Then enter and demand who's account is this or take everyone to jail.