Social media platforms with ‘low risk of harm to children’ could escape Albanese government age ban

Communications minister Michelle Rowland says likely' changes to Online Safety Act will place onus on platforms, not parents or young people'

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Social media companies could escape the Albanese government's proposed age ban if they can demonstrate a low risk of harm to children", the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, has said.

Rowland will announce on Friday that the likely" amendments to the Online Safety Act banning children from social media will place the onus on platforms, not parents or young people" to enforce the ban.

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