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Social media has a social responsibility ... that's why we are making big changes to hold platforms to account for user safety,
Rowland said
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This is a landmark reform. We know some kids will find workarounds, but we're sending a message to social media companies to clean up their act,
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statementThis is about protecting young people, not punishing or isolating them, and letting parents know that we’re in their corner when it comes to supporting their children’s health and wellbeing,
Rowland said
For too many young Australians, social media can be harmful. Almost two-thirds of 14- to 17-years-old Australians have viewed extremely harmful content online including drug abuse, suicide or self-harm as well as violent material. One quarter have been exposed to content promoting unsafe eating habits,
Rowland saidWe are not saying risks don’t exist on messaging apps or online gaming. While users can still be exposed to harmful content by other users, they do not face the same algorithmic curation of content and psychological manipulation to encourage near-endless engagement,
Rowland saidThis 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 ParliamentThere 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 addedFurther, the inclusion of messaging apps could have wider consequences, such as making communication within families harder,
she said
We are very prepared to go through having a process of criteria and seeing how this fits against it
she told 2GB last week
What people are less keen on is having to go through ID check and verifications to access the internet generally or to do things online generally,
Allen added
This is not about government mandating any form of technology or demanding any personal information be handed over to social media companies,
Rowland saidI think if people understand the risk and the check is carried out close to that risk, then I think people generally are OK ... We don’t want our children to be exposed to extreme violent video games or to pornography or to suicide material or to things that are going to cause them problems with their mental development such as body dysmorphia and weight loss and stuff like that,
Allen saidNone of these methods is 100% accurate,
Allen told Australian Broadcasting CorpThe move effectively bumped up the severity of the intimate image abuse sharing offence within the Online Safety Act, so platforms have to be proactive in removing the content and prevent it from appearing in the first place,
DSIT spokesman Glen Mcalpine confirmed
What I want to do is look at the evidence,
Kyle also said on kids and social media, pointing to the simultaneous launch of a “feasibility study” which he said would “look at the areas where evidence is lacking
There are assumptions about the impact [social media] has on children and young people, but there is no firm, peer reviewed evidence,
Kyle also told the BBC, suggestingThey had to proactively demonstrate to our regulator Ofcom that the algorithms would prevent that material going on in the first place. And if an image did appear online they needed to be taken down as fast as reasonably could be expected after being alerted,
he said, warning of “heavy fines” for non-complianceThe opposition is the only party arguing that people should upload 100 points of ID and give it to TikTok,
she told the meeting
It’s one area where you can see that harm is being prevented, rather than actually getting out into society and then us dealing with it afterwards — which is what was happening before,
he addedThe legislation places the onus on social media platforms, not parents or children, to ensure protections are in place,
she said