Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find
THE SO WHAT
Australia’s under-16 ban struggling at the basic age-check layer shows how hard it is to regulate behavior on identity-fragile platforms. Platforms and regulators should expect that any policy relying on accurate age verification at scale will need new primitives—device-level, carrier-level, or ID-linked.
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