1 in 3 parents will help kids get around it

A third of parents plan to help their children get around Australia’s social media ban on teenagers, according to exclusive government-commissioned research.

The Albanian government has been warned that a combination of parents helping children access social media sites and young people sharing methods to bypass the ban could undermine the effectiveness of the government’s “social media minimum age” policy.

In September, Orima Research submitted a report to the Ministry of Communications that would “inform the development of a communications strategy to increase awareness and preparedness for the Social Media Minimum Age,” based on surveys and focus groups conducted in May.

Key to the study’s findings was the difficulty of circumvention, with the finding that “moderate” support for the ban among parents did not necessarily translate into willingness to comply with the law.

“A significant minority of parents/carers and respondents aged 8-15 stated that they would attempt to circumvent the law regardless of their level of support for the SMMA,” the report said.

The report noted that 34% of parents and caregivers surveyed said they were “likely to find/help their child find a way to continue using social media.”

The report states that many parents say they believe their children are already using social media safely, while others think it is too difficult to set an age limit.

This significant portion of parental non-cooperation, combined with young people sharing common strategies to get around the ban, was highlighted as a threat to the overall success of the ban.

“It has been identified that there is a risk of non-compliance snowballing and normalising. This could potentially undermine the effectiveness of the SMMA and associated communication activities,” he says.

A spokesperson for Communications Minister Anika Wells said: cricket It said it had launched the new national advertising campaign for the ban due to the lack of understanding shown in the survey conducted more than six months ago.

“We know there is pressure on parents to manage access to social media, which is why the social media minimum age is designed to put the onus on the platforms, not the parents,” they said in an email.

reportedly $14 million The “For the sake of our children” campaign will sell the benefits of the ban, hoping to encourage parents to support the ban and not overstep it.

A spokesperson for the eSafety commissioner’s office also said there had been “a number of developments and milestones that have been achieved and delivered” since the vote was held earlier this year.

“These provide important additional information about how age delay will work and underline how serious the Australian government is about implementing it,” they said.

An eSafety spokesperson said the guidance on how social media platforms enforce the ban creates an expectation that platforms monitor circumvention signals. These include changes in IP address, GPS location, content analysis on the platform, links and other information that can be used to understand the user’s age or location.

The government has acknowledged since the ban became law that some young people may be able to bypass it, but has refused to set expectations for how effective social media companies should be at keeping children off the platforms.

Other findings from Orima Research included:

• Parents were more likely to support the ban if they thought it would have positive effects and if they understood the policy, but half of parents didn’t know much about the policy.
• They were also significantly more likely to expect a ban would be beneficial if they were highly concerned about social media (66% of respondents) than if they were moderately concerned or not at all concerned (36%).
• Parents and caregivers were more likely to see benefits for their children rather than their children.
• Three fifths of parents had concerns about age control methods.

A summary of the findings has been uploaded to the eSafety commission’s website as part of a series of resources and other documents published last week to help parents, children and teachers prepare ahead of the December 10 ban.