Porn sites and Meta among those tasked with drafting Australia’s online child safety rules

Regulator gives industry groups six months to come up with draft code, expected to include rules about age verification

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Australia's online safety regulator has given porn websites, social media companies, search engines and others in the tech industry six months to come up with rules to prevent children from accessing adult content.

Using powers under the Online Safety Act, the eSafety commissioner will require industry bodies to come up with a new code to prevent children from seeing content rated R18+ and above on their services or devices.

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