{"id":50089,"date":"2025-12-10T02:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/social-media-ban-some-platforms-still-allowing-14-year-olds-as-australias-landmark-ruling-comes-into-force\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T02:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T02:05:37","slug":"social-media-ban-some-platforms-still-allowing-14-year-olds-as-australias-landmark-ruling-comes-into-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/social-media-ban-some-platforms-still-allowing-14-year-olds-as-australias-landmark-ruling-comes-into-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media ban: some platforms still allowing 14-year-olds as Australia\u2019s landmark ruling comes into force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albanese says commencement of ban a \u2018proud day\u2019 for him as prime minister, while eSafety commissioner unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions<\/p>\n

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As Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban got under way on Wednesday<\/a>, some platforms were still allowing accounts registered for 14-year-olds, while Anthony Albanese described it as a \u201cproud day\u201d to be prime minister.<\/p>\n

Of the 10 platforms identified by the eSafety commissioner as needing to comply with the ban, Kick, Threads, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and X would not allow accounts registered with a birth date of 11 January 2011.<\/p>\n

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Albanese says commencement of ban a \u2018proud day\u2019 for him as prime minister, while eSafety commissioner unconcerned by reports of children bypassing restrictions Reader callout: How is Australia\u2019s social media ban affecting you and your family? Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news […]<\/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-50089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50089","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=50089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}