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Awesome

As a parent, I agree with the spirit of this law and hope other countries would follow. It's difficult to tell your kid he's not allowed something that's available to other kids. I can't imagine implementation will be smooth, but these things can be figured out.

That sounds pretty hard to enforce. Didn't Marshall McLuhan say 'The Medium is the Message'?

Youtube's minimum age limit is 13. I think 16 is too high.

Don't just ban, but also educate. Why are people treating young minds that they need protection? They need understanding. Chinese government don't ban social media outright, Douyin (Chinese Tiktok) is allowed to kids 40 minutes a day and promotes educational content

The third link didn't work here's another one www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It'll be just as effective as porn sites asking you to verify your age.

I support this! It's not good for kids to be on social media!

It's horseshit and we all know it.

VPN anyone?

If you really, really want a 14 year old to really, really want to do something then tell them that they are not old enough. OH - and this is the same government that has refused to ban advertising for gambling apps.

“government says is world-leading”. It’s easy to say things but even they don’t know how it will work. That’s Australia, over promise and over budget.

bamn!

Not quite sure what to think of it ... Having Parented two daughters (16/19) through it... There are upsides and downsides. Parents have to manage it, however, I agree that most parents refuse or do not know how to engage

There should be a maximum age too

Utter nanny state

TIK TOK has banned over 1 million underage users themselves?

Okay, get out of here then. Put your money where your mouth is.

The age limit here in the UK is 13 because that matches with the age at which a young person can provide their own consent for processing personal data. Young people should be supported in making decisions, not arbitrarily prevented just because society can't be bothered protecting them.

It is a "law" without a clue about consequences, how to monitor, how to prevent avoidance, how to enforce. It is not a solution, it is a con job.

Oh hey Reuters. Come to pump CCP shilling journalism on Blue Sky too?

'darker corners of the internet' ... But the ban also applies to X.

That’ll teach the bullies 😂 it’s not like parents won’t make their kids an account just to shut them up

They band all social media. Only allows bluesky

But we all know most parents are too busy or just disinterested in using the parental controls already available for their children's phones. They prefer parental duties belong to someone else, in this case, the government. Are parents responsible for anything these days?

My grandson is 12. He's not allowed on tiktok or any of those type of sites. But you know who is? Every one of his friends. Do they lock their kids in the house?

At least if you allow your kids to be on social media, train them properly about things that are also on social media..like, pedos posing as kids, scammers, etc..never tell your full name or address or school or work name, that sort of stuff

I mean we won't be anonymous, which is possibly the real point.

Massive government overreach- let’s call it what it is

Yeah if it’s not going to stop vulnerable young teens and kids from being exposed to the worst of it then it’s a waste of time. It just ends up impacting adults then it’s a just whole seperate thing/argument.