{"id":16781,"date":"2024-12-03T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/why-silicon-valley-panicked-over-australias-under-16-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T12:37:22","slug":"why-silicon-valley-panicked-over-australias-under-16-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/why-silicon-valley-panicked-over-australias-under-16-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Silicon Valley panicked over Australia\u2019s under-16 social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s children account for a tiny portion of users but tech companies worry about the law setting a precedent<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Happy belated Thanksgiving to my American readers, and I hope everyone enjoys a good holiday party this weekend. I\u2019m excited to bake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helvetickitchen.com\/recipes\/2017\/12\/4\/grittibanz\">Grittib\u00e4nz<\/a> for the Feast of St Nicholas. This week in tech: Australia incites a panic, Bluesky poses the question of custom feeds, and the online things that brought me joy on holiday.<\/p>\n<p>If every country in the world boots its young people from social media, social media companies would face an uncertain future<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/02\/australia-social-media-children-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca33e2791bc3055ec10db31f62c080b888ed1ea2\/0_224_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3cb3c469bd8d215f3a8bbf7cc524cb97\" title=\"Why Silicon Valley panicked over Australia\u2019s under-16 social media ban\" \/>Australia\u2019s children account for a tiny portion of users but tech companies worry about the law setting a precedent<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. Happy belated Thanksgiving to my American readers, and I hope everyone enjoys a good holiday party this weekend. I\u2019m excited to bake Grittib\u00e4nz for the Feast of St Nicholas. This week in tech: Australia incites a panic, Bluesky poses the question of custom feeds, and the online things that brought me joy on holiday.<br \/>\nIf every country in the world boots its young people from social media, social media companies would face an uncertain future Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s children account for a tiny portion of users but tech companies worry about the law setting a precedent Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Happy belated Thanksgiving to my American readers, and I hope everyone enjoys a good holiday party this weekend. I\u2019m excited to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/03\/why-silicon-valley-panicked-over-australias-under-16-social-media-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Silicon Valley panicked over Australia\u2019s under-16 social media ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}