{"id":21189,"date":"2025-12-12T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/reddit-launches-high-court-challenge-to-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:38:03","slug":"reddit-launches-high-court-challenge-to-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/reddit-launches-high-court-challenge-to-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform fighting world-leading ban on grounds it contravenes implied freedom of political communication in constitution<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/dec\/11\/social-media-ban-australia-teen-high-court-challenge\">Will Australia\u2019s social media ban survive a high court challenge?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reddit has filed a challenge against Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban in the high court, lodging its case two days after implementing age restrictions on its website.<\/p>\n<p> The company said in a Reddit post on Friday that while it agreed with protecting people under 16, the law \u201chas the unfortunate effect of forcing intrusive and potentially insecure verification processes on adults as well as minors, isolating teens from the ability to engage in age-appropriate community experiences\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reddit said there was an \u201cillogical patchwork\u201d of platforms included in the ban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/12\/reddit-high-court-challenge-social-media-ban-australia-under-16s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/593f4c0d03990046121aef0f7507437a4c10e99e\/1198_0_7857_6286\/master\/7857.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=94c295a57275ccfd0522770e4c55d91d\" title=\"Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban\" \/>Platform fighting world-leading ban on grounds it contravenes implied freedom of political communication in constitution<br \/>\nWill Australia\u2019s social media ban survive a high court challenge?<br \/>\nReddit has filed a challenge against Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban in the high court, lodging its case two days after implementing age restrictions on its website.<br \/>\n The company said in a Reddit post on Friday that while it agreed with protecting people under 16, the law \u201chas the unfortunate effect of forcing intrusive and potentially insecure verification processes on adults as well as minors, isolating teens from the ability to engage in age-appropriate community experiences\u201d.<br \/>\nReddit said there was an \u201cillogical patchwork\u201d of platforms included in the ban. 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The company said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/reddit-launches-high-court-challenge-to-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21190,"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\/21189"}],"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=21189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}