Trending searches: social media ban south australia
276 Pages detailing the potential online future for South Australian children it should not be open to governments to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that social media isn't doing our children harm when we know it is under a bill proposed by the state government social media companies would have to take all reasonable steps to prevent children younger than 14 from accessing their platforms or they could face fines in the millions of dollars the state should go down the path of imposing a statutory duty of Care on social media service providers a regulator would be appointed to oversee the system and issue finds but details around the duty of Care on companies is still unclear young people will have to prove in some way um their age if they do want to use these social media platforms exactly how that's going to be done is still not clear and while the plan has the tick of approval from the e safety commissioner others believe it won't allow children to discover the internet on their own simply responding to the risks by Banning it is not acknowledging the substantial benefits South Australia would be the first state to implement a social media ban and while some think it should fall to the Commonwealth other states are showing interest if we can progress it at a state byst state level uh then we'll we'll look at doing that here we want let kids be kids it's so important that we take the Insidious impact of social media out of their lives the South Australian government is yet to give a timeline for when the ban would be implemented into the state the proposed bill will now go into public consultation Sarah McLean ABC News