In a speech to the New South Wales and South Australian government social media summit today, Federal Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland announced more details of how the federal government's proposed social media ban would actually work.
The government first announced the ban last month, shortly after SA said it will ban children under 14 from social media. But experts have heavily criticized the idea, and this week more than 120 experts from Australia and overseas wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and state and territory premiers urging a rethink.
Despite this, the government appears to be plowing ahead with the proposed ban. The details Rowland announced today do not meaningfully address many of the criticisms made over the past few weeks.
In fact, they actually raise new problems.
What are the details of the social media ban?
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