A six-year-old sitting on a couch with his iPad watching a show on YouTube at his home in western Sydney. Not every Australian user will have to prove their age – only those suspected of holding an underage account. — AFP
SYDNEY: Tech giants will apply multiple layers of security to weed out young users under Australia's world-first ban on social media for under-16s.
If they fail to take "reasonable steps" to block young teens, the firms behind platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube face hefty fines.
