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Early data from Australia's social media ban for under-16s showed no changes in levels of online bullying, calling into question the effectiveness of the policy.
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Australia rushed its under-16 social media ban through parliament after a politician's wife read Haidt's book, Odgers recounts with barely concealed dismay. On the first day the ban took effect, something immediately counterproductive happened: teens lost their platform accounts, and with them, all the parental controls, content filters, and safety guardrails tied to those accounts. YouTube remained accessible — the number one platform for children globally — but now without any account-based protections. Follow-up tracking showed over 70% of affected young people were still on the platforms using workarounds [1] — Candice Odgers "Australia became the first country to ban social media for under-16s, but on day one, teens lost their accounts — and with them, parental c…" 43:00 . The enforcement mechanisms proposed to fix this failure compounded the harm: mass biometric data harvesting to verify ages, and facial recognition technology that Odgers notes is approximately two years off in its age estimates and performs worse for children from minority backgrounds. Meta's reportedly proposed solution involves bone structure analysis. Children, meanwhile, bypassed the face-scanning by photographing their dogs or drawing mustaches on their faces — which Odgers notes are problems computer vision can actually solve, suggesting the companies aren't trying very hard.
Australia became the first country to ban social media for under-16s, but on day one, teens lost their accounts — and with them, parental controls, content filters, and safety protocols. Over 70% are still on the platforms. The solution: harvest everyone's biometric data.
After Australia's social media ban for under-16s took effect, tracking data showed that over 70% of affected young people were still accessing the platforms.
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