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Government regulators using statutory powers, testing and enforceable undertakings to compel platform safety changes.
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Canberra's exposure draft takes a right Europe already granted and adds the part Europe left out: making platforms keep offering it. That obligation is also the rare online-safety rule a researcher can check in an afternoon.
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Pornhub's parent company started reading Apple's device-level under-18 signal in May. Ofcom's investigation is about the testing Aylo did before it switched that over. The liability stays with Aylo.
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The Trump administration used Australia's own public consultation to ask that American platforms be exempted from the proposed under-18 duty of care, a request that lands while the exposure draft is still being written.
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A year after promoting the under-16 social media ban at the UN, Anthony Albanese is legislating a digital duty of care and an algorithm opt-out. The enforcement that has changed Meta's products so far came from Europe and the US.
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Facebook, Instagram and TikTok would have to ask each Australian whether their default feed is algorithmic or friends-only. Approved researchers would get sanctioned fake accounts to test what the systems actually serve.
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