Answering every question you have

Australia’s decision to impose a young social media ban was called the first in the world.

Although there is global interest, there is a lot of confusion about how the ban will work and the details of the practice.

As part of CriraseWe have brought together the most common questions about the prohibition to cover the policy closely, to answer what we know, what we do not know and what we expect. We will update it to answer new questions and include new information.

What is a young social media ban?

Australian Federal Parliament Online Security Change (Social Media Minimum Age) Invoice In November 2024, forcing social media companies to apply a minimum age to have an account on their platforms.

What is the law doing?

There are two main parts of the law. First, it creates legal minimum 16 years of age to have an account on certain online platforms. This is an increase in an industry de facto age standard of 13.

Secondly, these online platforms require that the account in Australia takes “reasonable steps için to implement this minimum age. Currently, it is not legal for social media platforms to do anything to implement the current minimum age rules (if any).

What does the law not do?

The law is not very prescriptive. Does not tell how the ban should be applied or which companies should be applied. Instead, these decisions will be commemorated before the prohibition began later this year.

Why does Australia do this?

What the government said about the popular policy:

Michelle Rowland Minister Michelle Rowland said, “This is about protecting young people – punishing or isolating them – and to ensure that parents know that we are in the corner of supporting the health and welfare of their children” Then the Minister of Communication Michelle Rowland in question In the second reading of the bill.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanians, “We know that social media is doing social damage, and children are distant from real friends and real experiences” in question When he first announced politics.

What is the criticism of the ban?

Experts questioned the evidence that supporting the benefits of increasing the minimum age for social media use and that it would not even be backfire. The law itself has been criticized about the chaotic nature of the development of legislation and its strange construction.

Which social media platforms will be included?

We don’t know yet. The law applies to “Age -Limited Social Media Platforms olan, a term with a wide recognition. While introducing the bill to the parliament, Rowland said that the ban would include “Tiktok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram, X (formerly twitter).

The Minister of Communication has the last word about which services will be under the ban. The Minister will now publish a number of legal binding rules that can determine which platforms to be included and involved.

What about youtube?

Again, we don’t know for sure yet. Initially, the government said that Youtube would be excluded. In fact, on the draft set of the rules, he made a certain carving for Youtube-excluding the only online service specified in the name.

But this may change. The Government of ELEYETIS called Ban to include Google’s video platform and Anika Wells reportedly accept this advice.

Does this mean that young people cannot access these platforms?

No. A widespread misunderstanding is that this law is trying to prohibit all access; Law, one bill. The law has nothing to say about a seven -year -old child who watches Youtube.

Most of these services are still functional without an account. You can take a look at Youtube, Tiktok and Reddit without having to log in. Some of these platforms – Tiktok and Youtube shorts – even have most of the design features such as algorithmic suggestions that young social media band defenders are trying to deal with this prohibition.

Who needs to apply a ban?

The selected social media companies are forced to take “reasonable steps için to prevent anyone under 16 years of age. If these companies do not do this, they will face a fine of up to $ 49.5 million. Neither young people nor parents who are banned will not face any punishment.

What are “reasonable steps ??

A great question! There is no checklist of the things that social media companies need to do to implement the ban. When the government says that young people are based on technology companies to prevent them from creating and using accounts on their platforms, they also give them responsibility to find them.

These companies won’t be completely dark. The law gives the Esafety commissioner Inman Grant to find “instructions .. These are clearly Negative Legally binding arrangements or legal instruments. Grant clearly stated that they would resemble more principles than prescriptive requirements.

Do we know how the instructions of the Bashe Commissioner will be?

Inman Grant said that social media platforms expect users to use a combination of technologies and methods to control their age.

What are these technologies? (Age assurance, age estimation, age analysis, age extraction, age verification and so on.

There is a developing technology and product space used to determine someone’s age online. It includes everything from the term “Age Assurance ,, from the services that confirm your driver’s license to the analysis of facial features, to algorithms that analyze your social media accounts for your age.

There are various sub -sweats, such as age estimation (predicting your age based on biological or behavioral factors), age subtractions (finding that someone is more than 18 years of age or being in a certain age range, but these terms are often used interchangeably.

The term “age verification” is no longer used, because many popular methods will not be as much as they predict or remove the age of 100%.

Will this just affect young people?

No, this policy will affect every online Australia.

Think about it. If you want to treat a particular user differently, you need to understand whether a user is in that group. In this case, you need to check the age of everyone before knowing who they are and there is no child. Therefore, adults will be asked to do other steps to deliver their passports, to scan their faces or to prove that they should not be banned. Therefore, the young social media ban is also a national online age verification plan.

How well these technologies work?

Another wonderful question! In addition to other things, the government has initiated a trial of these technologies in the context of Australia to inform the implementation of the young social media ban.

The hearing has not yet published the results, but a little bit “Preliminary findings“He claims that these technologies work. Basically we don’t know how well they work.

However, most of the platforms to be included in the ban already use these technologies in some way. The question is whether the current use and effectiveness will meet the government’s expectations.

Will children walk around? What’s about VPNs, access to other people’s accounts and other missing methods?

Everyone acknowledges that children will be banned.

Anthony Albanian accepted“We do not mean that there is nothing to walk around.” As the prohibition approached the implementation of the ban, figures such as the Minister of Teethis and the Minister of Communication have increasingly tried to keep their expectations that it was a rock-mutual prohibition.

At the same time, the government wants the law to create “friction” to stop some Australians under the age of 16 to have social media accounts.

The unlocked question is: What is the expectation of the government about how many children will overcome the ban? Is one of the 10 children happy if he finds a way to enter Tiktok? One third? This is important because the prohibition of social media companies will determine the way of applying it.

How do we know if the ban is working?

Currently, there is no public criterion to compare the success of the young social media ban. Considering numerous reasons for the law and the complexity of measuring the welfare of children, it will be difficult to understand its effect.

The Commissioner of Teleetis said that he made a comprehensive assessment to understand the effects of legislation ”and established a group of Australia and international academics to evaluate it. We know they were chosen and met, but they haven’t been announced yet.

What needs to be done before the prohibition starts?

There will be a few kilometers of stones that will be before the prohibition starts:

• The government’s Age Assurance Technology Trial, he said he would give a full report to the government before the end of July. Director Tony Allen claimed that this report would be opened to public in August. This is seen.
• What kind of information technology companies should give advice to the Minister of Communication Commissioner? Negative To collect while applying the ban.
• The Minister of Communication will publish legally binding “online safety rules olarak that will determine which platforms will be included in the ban.
• The Commissioner of Teleetis should publish instructions for reasonable steps that social media companies expect to take.

When does it come into play?

The ban had to begin a year after the law on December 10, 2024.

Does the government say that this is not a prohibition, a delay or a minimum requirement of age?

Please. This is a ban.