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New Australian social media legislation to give Communications Minister sweeping powers to define platforms, 'Age-Restricted Social Media Platforms', as defined below.

These platforms will see a ban on Under-16s and require them to age verify all users.

#auspol #socialmedia
Text:

63C Age-restricted social media platform1
(1) For the purposes of this Act, age-restricted social media platform2
means:3
(a) an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:4
(i) the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service5
is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more6
end-users;7
(ii) the service allows end-users to link to, or interact with,8
some or all of the other end-users;9
(iii) the service allows end-users to post material on the10
service;11
(iv) such other conditions (if any) as are set out in the12
legislative rules; or13
(b) an electronic service specified in the legislative rules;14
but does not include a service mentioned in subsection (6).