{"id":21153,"date":"2025-12-09T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:37:22","slug":"reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit to comply with Australia\u2019s \u2018legally erroneous\u2019 under-16 social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platform<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/09\/australia-news-live-aukus-submarine-wong-marles-rubio-hegseth-anika-wells-family-travel-benefit-social-media-ban-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reddit will comply with Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban, due to begin on Wednesday, but says it is \u201clegally erroneous\u201d and \u201carbitrary\u201d in its effect.<\/p>\n<p>The company argued to the eSafety commissioner that its platform was a source of information, not primarily social media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/09\/reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/44ac5d3647d9c8367735d33cbe5b2f63a0a02e4a\/94_0_2813_2250\/master\/2813.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d1b649977b368cecccad7469ecf52a30\" title=\"Reddit to comply with Australia\u2019s \u2018legally erroneous\u2019 under-16 social media ban\" \/>Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platform<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Reddit will comply with Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban, due to begin on Wednesday, but says it is \u201clegally erroneous\u201d and \u201carbitrary\u201d in its effect.<br \/>\nThe company argued to the eSafety commissioner that its platform was a source of information, not primarily social media. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform to introduce age-prediction model analysing users but argued to eSafety commissioner it was a source of information not a social media platform Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Reddit will comply with Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban, due to begin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/reddit-to-comply-with-australias-legally-erroneous-under-16-social-media-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reddit to comply with Australia\u2019s \u2018legally erroneous\u2019 under-16 social media ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21154,"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\/21153"}],"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=21153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}