Australia plans to force parental consent for minors on social media

[New World Explorer]

Australia plans to make social media companies obtain parental consent for users under the age of 16 and is threatening fines of up to 10 million Australian dollars ($7.5 million) for internet platforms which fail to comply, under draft legislation published on Monday.he new proposed rules would put Australia among the most stringent countries in terms of age controls for social media, and build on efforts to rein in the power of Big Tech https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/tech/australia-social-media-parental-consent-intl-hnk/index.html

 

Would you welcome such proposal where you live? If you have children would be happy to see such regulation in real life? 

 

Today on the news:  The Australian Federal Police have revealed that children as young as 13 years old have been caught planning “catastrophic” terror attacks via the internet.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/afp-children-as-young-as-13-helping-coordinate-terror-attacks-via-the-internet/news-story/9f589c0d9ffa3257e5b768548babc994

 

 

[Dages]

Very nice... We are already kind of doing that as JWs.

Yesterday, at the streamstudio Convention we had yesterday, we were basically told to do the same thing.