Reddit launches legal challenge against the Australian Under 16 social media ban https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-12/reddit-social-media-ban-under-16-court-challenge/106134994

There are no fines for children or parents anyway if they find ways around the ban. The social media companies can be issued with fines if they don’t take “reasonable steps” to keep under 16s off their platforms but the wording of that is so vague that it will likely end up in a legal challenge when a fine is issued.

This is what I see is going to happen. They will say the facial age estimation isn’t accurate enough so the only option is government ID.

Yeah, unfortunately I see so many people in support of this here.. They don’t seem to accept that this is a parental responsibility, not the government’s, and they don’t see all of the privacy and other issues that go along with this sort of age verification.

Australia’s under 16 social media ban which started today isn’t going so well. This ban was never going to work and children are bypassing the checks fairly easily. I’ve personally heard of four 13-15 year olds that could reactivate Snapchat accounts simply by setting their date of birth so they are older than 16 and completing a facial scan age verification which “confirmed” they were old enough. I’ve also heard many reports of under 16s still on TikTok without even having to do anything to bypass the ban, and YouTube accounts that were flagged for suspension that are still active. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-10/social-media-ban-day-one-teen-access/106126706

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727 days is the total streak since I started so not just this year. I’m learning Spanish.

Duolingo 2025. I feel like I am still making progress although I haven’t been doing as much recently.

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