
A BILL TO RESTRICT UNDER-16s ACCESS TO SOCIAL MEDIA IS BEING INTRODUCED IN AUSTRALIA AND TECH CORPORATIONS MAY FACE STEEP FINES
Social media businesses who violate a proposed prohibition on minors under 16 accessing their services face multimillion dollar fines from the Australian government. The government has positioned the change to the Online Safety Act as “world-leading social media reform,” and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland announced it in parliament on Thursday. Rowland said in a statement,…