X Says Australia’s Under-16s Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

Elon Musk's platform hit out at the country's “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

Malaysia is tightening controls on high-risk hiking routes after officials linked a growing rescue burden to poor preparation, unauthorised trails and social media-driven summit attempts. The push is aimed partly at curbing gruelling “compressed hikes”, in which climbers try to complete long or technically demanding ro

Australia's world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the United States.

The contention by X, whose parent company is Elon Musk's SpaceX, amounts to one of the world's most powerful people injecting a geopolitical element into the debate on the social media ban for teens

Musk's X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law  Reuters

In a damning submission, an age-check firm warns big fines may still be seen as a "small price to pay" if it allowed Australia's ban to "wrongly" be portrayed as a failure.

Getty Images Protecting young people from the harms they can experience online is clearly important. But with so much focus on a possible social media ban for under-16s, there is also a risk of sidelining better solutions. A social media ban was just one of 12 recommendations the Education and Workforce Select Committe

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