{"id":41571,"date":"2025-07-30T19:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/albanese-says-banning-children-from-social-media-not-going-to-be-easy-as-key-questions-unanswered-13\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:04:41","slug":"albanese-says-banning-children-from-social-media-not-going-to-be-easy-as-key-questions-unanswered-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/albanese-says-banning-children-from-social-media-not-going-to-be-easy-as-key-questions-unanswered-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese says banning children from social media \u2018not going to be easy\u2019 as key questions unanswered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Onus on platforms to design simple solutions and there are \u2018lots of ways\u2019 tech firms could verify age of users, says communications minister<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/jul\/30\/australia-politics-live-senate-question-time-gaza-palestine-israel-anthonty-albanese-sussan-ley-youtube-social-media-ban-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Albanese admits banning children from social media \u201cis not going to be simple\u201d, with questions still unanswered over how tech platforms will check the ages of all Australian users \u2013 and which platforms will be included \u2013 when the government imposes its under 16s social media ban this year.<\/p>\n<p>The communications minister, Anika Wells, said on Wednesday the onus will be on platforms to design simple solutions, claiming there are \u201clots of ways\u201d tech companies could check the ages of their users.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/30\/social-media-ban-childern-australia-pm-albanese\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onus on platforms to design simple solutions and there are \u2018lots of ways\u2019 tech firms could verify age of users, says communications minister Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese admits banning children from social media \u201cis not going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}