{"id":18379,"date":"2025-04-04T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/australias-social-media-ban-is-attracting-global-praise-but-were-no-closer-to-knowing-how-it-would-work\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:37:15","slug":"australias-social-media-ban-is-attracting-global-praise-but-were-no-closer-to-knowing-how-it-would-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/australias-social-media-ban-is-attracting-global-praise-but-were-no-closer-to-knowing-how-it-would-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s social media ban is attracting global praise \u2013 but we\u2019re no closer to knowing how it would work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial is under way but the government faces many hurdles \u2013 including whether Trump-emboldened tech companies will comply<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">afternoon election 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>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The smash hit Netflix show Adolescence, which explores a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity, has renewed calls for social media bans in some countries. One of the show\u2019s stars this week said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/adolescence-faye-marsay-netflix-social-media-ban-b2725776.html\">the UK should follow Australia\u2019s lead<\/a> in banning children aged under 16 from social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The ban has been praised in the US and UK, and is described as \u201cworld-leading\u201d by the Australian government. Time magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7273443\/australia-social-media-ban-anthony-albanese\/\">this week praised<\/a> the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, for a \u201cremarkable\u201d policy that was \u201cpolitically uncontroversial\u201d on the basis that both major parties supported it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/05\/australia-social-media-ban-trial-global-response-implementation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7699fe7fe5878742f9209e0b6ea916488c1ae671\/131_0_3938_2363\/master\/3938.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2018e57b086f4a9047de522f41dbdd7e\" title=\"Australia\u2019s social media ban is attracting global praise \u2013 but we\u2019re no closer to knowing how it would work\" \/>A trial is under way but the government faces many hurdles \u2013 including whether Trump-emboldened tech companies will comply<br \/>\nGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The smash hit Netflix show Adolescence, which explores a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity, has renewed calls for social media bans in some countries. One of the show\u2019s stars this week said the UK should follow Australia\u2019s lead in banning children aged under 16 from social media platforms.<br \/>\nThe ban has been praised in the US and UK, and is described as \u201cworld-leading\u201d by the Australian government. Time magazine this week praised the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, for a \u201cremarkable\u201d policy that was \u201cpolitically uncontroversial\u201d on the basis that both major parties supported it.<br \/>\nSign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial is under way but the government faces many hurdles \u2013 including whether Trump-emboldened tech companies will comply Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast The smash hit Netflix show Adolescence, which explores a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity, has renewed calls for social media bans &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/australias-social-media-ban-is-attracting-global-praise-but-were-no-closer-to-knowing-how-it-would-work\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia\u2019s social media ban is attracting global praise \u2013 but we\u2019re no closer to knowing how it would work<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18380,"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\/18379"}],"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=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}