Lisa Given: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor on Australia committing to national social media age limits
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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New legislation will stop Australia's youth from accessing social networks like Instagram, Snapchat, Discord and TikTok.
The Australian Government will introduce legislation by the end of the year to create a minimum age for accessing social media.
Professor Lisa Given from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology wonders if a wide-scale ban is even possible.
"The question is, are there workarounds on that? There's certainly ways that children could get around that type of mechanism, using a VPN for example - or even just accessing content through other people's accounts."
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