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Musk has antecedently clashed with Australia's centre-left Labor authorities implicit its societal media policies. (Image: Reuters)
US billionaire Elon Musk, proprietor of societal media level X, has criticised Australia’s projected instrumentality to prohibition societal media for children nether 16 and good societal media platforms of up to A$49.5 cardinal ($32 million) for companies for systemic breaches.
Australia’s centre-left authorities connected Thursday introduced the measure successful parliament. It plans to effort an age-verification strategy to enforce a societal media property cut-off, immoderate of the toughest controls imposed by immoderate state to date.
“Seems similar a backdoor mode to power entree to the Internet by each Australians,” Musk, who views himself arsenic a champion of escaped speech, said successful a reply precocious connected Thursday to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s station connected X astir the bill.
Several countries person already vowed to curb societal media usage by children done legislation, but Australia’s argumentation could go 1 of the astir stringent with nary exemption for parental consent and pre-existing accounts.
France past twelvemonth projected a prohibition connected societal media for those nether 15 but allowed parental consent, portion the U.S. has for decades required exertion companies to question parental consent to entree the information of children nether 13.
Musk has antecedently clashed with Australia’s centre-left Labor authorities implicit its societal media policies and had called it “fascists” implicit its misinformation law.
In April, X went to an Australian tribunal to situation a cyber regulator’s bid for the removal of immoderate posts astir the stabbing of a bishop successful Sydney, prompting Albanese to telephone Musk an “arrogant billionaire”.
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