Plataformas de redes sociales eliminaron 4,7 millones de cuentas tras veto a menores en Australia – Chicago Tribune
By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million records identified as children in Australia since the country banned children under 16 from using the platforms, authorities said.
“We are faced with everyone who decides they cannot do it, some of the most powerful and richest companies in the world and their supporters,” said Communications Minister Anika Wells. “Now Australian fathers can be confident their children can reclaim their childhood.”
The figures, reported by the Australian government by 10 social media platforms, were the first to show the scale of the historic ban which came into force in December due to the effects of digital companies harming young people. The law provoked intense debates over the use of technology, privacy, child safety and the country’s mental health, and raised other similar measures.
Authorization indicates that the cifra is activated
Under Australian law, Facebook, Instagram, Kick, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Messaging services such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are available.
To verify education, platforms may request copies of identification documents, use a third party to apply technologies to estimate the account holder’s education, or make inferences from available data, such as when they will activate the account.
In Australia, there are already 2.5 million people aged between two and 15, the country’s electronic security commission, Julie Inman Grant, said. According to previous estimates, 84% of children aged 12 and up have social media accounts. Once he discovered there were assets on all 10 platforms, Inman Grant said the figure of 4.7 million “disabled or restricted” was active.
“We require predatory social media companies to have access to our children,” manifesto.
The 10 most important companies affected by the ban on accumulation and reporting the list of profiles eliminated from the Australian regulator in the field, indicated Inman Grant, who added that she hoped that the platforms change their investigation of accumulation with the legislation to avoid that children have new knowledge or evade the veto of another form.
Meta elimination 550,000 cents
The Australian authorities do not deglossify the cifras por plataforma. But Meta —owner of Facebook, Instagram and Threads—said this week that the day after the standard went into effect it eliminated 550,000 accounts lost by users who were under 16 years old.
In the blog post that revealed the cifras, criticism was made that smaller platforms are not enforced and do not prioritize security. Additionally, browsing platforms have been reported to offer children recommendations based on algorithms, a concern related to the veto’s enactment.
This law was very popular among fathers and child safety advocates. Quien abogan por la privacidad en internet and some groups that represent adolescents are exploited, citing the purpose that is found in online spaces for vulnerable young people or in extended geographic areas in the vast rural areas of the country.
Some say you need to engage in education assessment technologies or get help from your fathers or brother mayors to get the veto.
Other countries could follow suit
Since Australia began debating 2024 measures, other countries have considered following suit. Denmark is one of them: its government said in November that it planned to ban access to social networks for up to 15 years.
“What is most skeptical is that it works and it is replicated today across the world, it is something that is the motive of the Australian organization,” said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Viernes.
Opposition lawmakers have suggested that young people can easily ban or migrate to other apps that are less monitored than big platforms. Inman Grant reported that data seen by your office showed a response when downloading alternative apps when the standard came into effect, but not an addition to your usage.
“There are no real trends on a big place of those that we can do, but we are working with it,” said.
I also posited that the regulator running the plane was introducing “directed AI and chatbot restrictions globally in March,” but did not reveal further details.
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
