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Meta begins removing under-16s in Australia under social media ban

Meta has begun shutting down Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts belonging to Australian users aged 13 to 15, ahead of the country’s under-16 social media ban taking effect on 10 December.

Around 500,000 accounts are expected to be impacted as Meta moves to comply with a law that threatens fines of up to A$49.5m for platforms that fail to prevent under-16s from using their services.

The company says it will follow a multilayered compliance process but argues a more effective approach would be app-store age verification and parental approval at download, rather than repeated checks across individual platforms.

Affected teens can save their data before deactivation and may request a review if they believe they were misidentified, using a video selfie or government ID to verify their age.

The ban also applies to YouTube, X, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick and Twitch.

Critics warn the move risks isolating vulnerable youths and driving them to unregulated online spaces.

With 96% of Australian children aged 10–15 using social media the new law is being closely watched by governments worldwide.

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  1. First goose steps towards full totalitarian Digital ID’s and digital fingerprinting for everyone. Exactly the same techniques, using by Israel against Palestinians, they don’t like. Funny how ex IDF intelligence agents and the like, have ended up working for big Western software companies too, eh?

    Suffice to say, if you want your basic human rights respected, stop voting for treacherous globalists.

  2. Australia has morphed into a state of semi consciousnesses
    On life support and terminal in its present trajectory
    What was once a great country
    Now an unlucky cuntry
    What could have been
    Well under the hell of the Jewish Orwellian Jack Boot on and in its face
    Mauled by corruption covid and unrighteousness
    Which like so many never fully recovered
    Which was the objectives of its architects and detractors

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