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Big Tech must deliver on obligations under social-media ban, Australian minister says

( November 10, 2025, 05:15 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Social-media platforms that will be affected by Australia’s social-media ban for under-16s, which will come into effect on Dec. 12, have had 12 months to prepare and must now accept the onus of implementing the ban, Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells told a press conference on Monday. Wells said that the tech giants have spent the past year having conversations with Australia’s online-safety regular and, as the “richest companies in the world,” they can “deliver on their obligations.” Wells said the world-leading law was a result of Australia being “so committed to online safety” and determined to do something that will “make a genuine change to how kids grow up in Australia.”The transcript follows: ...

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