#Australian social media ban

[00venator]

Australian Social media ban

RUH!

As you may or may not now the bill that bans under 16s from the internet in Australia has passed. The ban won’t take place for another 12 months, and companies will be left to figure out how its gonna be enforced.

Here is a fact sheet from the gov. It coveres penalties and how it will be enforced.

The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill it’s self.

Australian Youth Affairs Coalition of why this is some serious shit

The link to the bill its self was frequently giving me an error. Recommend downloading.

Feel free to add anything in reblogs.

[welcome-to-hotel-california]

Just so y'all know

The Australian version of KOSA has passed through the Senate and in the later months of 2025 in Australia, it'll take effect there soon.

To those that aren't Australian, do anything you can to spread knowledge of it more online whether it be on this site, Bluesky, Tiktok, etc. To Australian citizens, do whatever you can to stop it by contacting your senators and the government to tell them on how this bill will do more harm than good.

Please get the word out globally!

[lesboyroxannewolf]

When governments say they want to ban social media its never for the good of the children. If it were for the good of the children there would be restrictions on ads and what content is promoted on those sites such as ed being constantly being pushed.

We are apart of the age who could still use social media, and yet the ban will not help. Forcing children will not help them have less issues. Mental health and other issues will still exist. These issues don't come from social media, they come from society and the world around us. These issues don't come from social media, they come from society

[ijusttalkalotlol]

The Australian Social Media Ban - The perspective of an ACTUAL teenager

Buckle up, this is a long one and I know probably no one will see this but oh well. I feel obligated to speak on the Australian social media ban as an Australian teenager that will be directly affected by it if the bill is passed. It’s stupid. That’s the basis of this entire law. There is no clarity behind the enforcement of this law and it seems to completely misunderstand social media, teenagers and the effect that it might have after the fact.

My first point is that the Australian government, Anthony Albanese specifically as the leader of the country, have not specified how exactly this law would be carried out. The only information I have found to be publicly available is that it will be the “app’s responsibility” this means that unless the apps themselves release a statement about their personal strategy, the Australian people, the people it’s affecting directly, will have no way of fully understanding the bill before it is passed. We will have little information to make proper judgements about this policy and misinformation is conducive to a failed attempt at a ban.

I do not disagree that social media can be harmful to children, the story of Charlotte O’Brien being at the forefront of my mind as I’m writing this. But, banning social media as a whole is a rash and simple-minded decision. The root of the problem isn’t social media, but the OTHER CHILDREN that are writing the harmful messages. Bullying will happen whether or not there are apps to type out insults on and solving these issues is about educating the people doing the bullying. We need to teach young people to treat people with respect, not take away the vices for underage people struggling in real life.

I’m aware of the studies surrounding self esteem and social media, but aren’t there better ways to rectify this? Shouldn’t we be giving children ways to build their self esteem and overcome these issues? This whole law stems from the government’s inability to step up and provide proper education and resources to minors that can’t do it for themselves. As much as I like to deny it, my generation has grown to be attached to social media as we have been around it since birth and taking it away will only bring about more pressing mental health issues and isolation.

Them even attempting to pass this law shows their fundamental misunderstanding of teenagers. It’s like these old, dinosaur-aged men (because that’s what they are) see a person under 25 and go “omg it’s a child!” But people of the ages 14, 15 and 16 are at an age where they are maturing, growing and learning to think for themselves. Treating them like they don’t have the critical thinking skills to choose how they want to respond to bullying or harmful things on social media is utterly stupid. Taking this choice away from them will only serve to harm their development and independency in this stage of life. As well as the fact that teens are already finding ways to get around this law when it hasn’t even been passed yet, showing how the government is underestimating the determination of teenagers when given a challenge.

Anyway, comment, hate on me, share your own opinions or completely ignore this post, I don’t really care. Just God I hope the government wakes up and thinks about not passing this bill or at least Lowering the age to 13 or 14.

[oldphanny]

Sorry guys, but if the Australian Government forces me to give them my ID to use social media, I'm outta here! ✌️😗 They've already leaked my personal details to the Dark Web before because some dickhead opened a PHISHING EMAIL SCAM and did nothing to fix it :)))))

[snarlinggherkin]

There some good news about the SM ban, The law does not come into force for another 12 months and is likely to face a high court challenge.

Fingers crossed! - either way there's no way in hell the labour or liberal party is getting my vote.

Bunch of performative bullshit fuck wits they are.

[galaxiasthealooffloofnsfwdni]

fuck the ban

ban ignorance, not information and kindness!

[that-purple-creature]

how in the frickity frack fuck are they going to enforce this social media ban for u16s 💀

[00venator]

*cough*

I do not want my parents knowing that I am trans because of shit posts I made on tumblr. I don’t want my REAL FUCKING IDENTITY linked to my online activity. AND I don’t want that shit leaked ina data breach.

[sharks-sharks-sharks]

So if you didn't know, the other day a bill was passed in Australia that will (try to) ban everyone under 16 from social media, it takes place about a year from now. The Australian Government does not have any proper plans in place to uphold/enforce this as of now.

With that all being said, though this ban will likely not effect me personally, I think it's stupid and a waste of time. Social media accounts now a days not only serve as a form of communication between friends and peers, but also as an archive of a person's life. Not only that, but I also think this ban will directly make the problem they have with social media worse. There is already a lack of education around how to stay safe on social media, but with this ban in place I have a feeling (knowing the Australian school system) that they will limit/stop completely the education around social media as not to "encourage it".

Sorry this is kinda just a rant and I don't really know where to go from here, I just needed somewhere to articulate my thoughts.

[that-purple-creature]

Finally someone who isn't a one nation conspiracy theorist talking about this

This affects EVERYONE in Australia!!

fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country

[moonelight]

Why is Linkedin getting blocked for under 16s? Are there a lot of teenagers on Linkedin? Even if they were, what's wrong with Linkedin?

[ijusttalkalotlol]

Don’t even talk to me, if I have to go 5 months without tiktok I’m moving countries

[snarlinggherkin]

Hiya! Sad-ish update

Looks like the Australian social media ban for Under 16s is still going to go ahead.

Depending on the method of age verification used (i.e. if they use a digital ID which includes birth certificates or similar) I may cease using Tumblr. I am over 16 however I don't trust social media companies or the Aus government to handle something this tech savvy (esp since the Optus breach etc.)

However I will still be on ao3 as that's an archive and not social media

Apologies for the delay in publishing the next chapter of my current multichap fic

Hoping to write and upload it soon

I am just very very pissed off with the current state of affairs

[rocksandaces]

That's so bad. We'll miss you

Depending on how the Australia social media ban comes through, I will be leaving social media. I am well over the 16 age limit ban, but I refuse to put my legal name and ID onto any online platform.

They may claim that it won’t be recorded, but that is unlikely to last. I do not want my future employment, my family or my friends to be able to look me up online and find my tumblr account.

I don’t want to be outed as gender queer, I don’t want them to know I write fanfiction and I don’t want people to know about my sexual orientation.

The only way I will continue to be online is if they can prove beyond reasonable doubt that my ID and information will not be recorded.

I’m making this post so that people know why I may just vanish one day.

[l0c41tr4ffic0n1y]

Australian Social Media Ban

So… is tumblr getting banned (for below 16) or what? They didn’t mention it in the list but Tumblr, however it fits the criteria to be banned.

I have some pretty strong opinions on this decision and they weren’t clear enough with what apps they’re banning.

Please tell me 😭😭