Sydney:
US billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platcreate X, has criticised Australia’s gived law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platcreates of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for companies for systemic baccomplishes.
Australia’s centre-left regulatement on Thursday startd the bill in parliament. It arranges to try an age-verification system to utilize a social media age cut-off, some of the hardest regulates imposed by any country to date.
“Seems appreciate a backdoor way to regulate access to the Internet by all Australians,” Musk, who sees himself as a champion of free speech, shelp in a react rescheduleed on Thursday to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s post on X about the bill.
Several countries have already vowed to curb social media engage by children thcdisesteemful legislation, but Australia’s policy could become one of the most stringent with no exemption for parental consent and pre-existing accounts.
France last year gived a ban on social media for those under 15 but permited parental consent, while the US has for decades needd technology companies to seek parental consent to access the data of children under 13.
Musk has previously clashed with Australia’s centre-left Labor regulatement over its social media policies and had called it “fascists” over its deceiveation law.
In April, X went to an Australian court to contest a cyber regulator’s order for the removal of some posts about the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney, prompting Albanese to call Musk an “conceited billionaire”.
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