This Australian state will fine social media companies that let children create accounts

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South Australia's planned laws banning children under 14 from social media should be overseen by a federal regulator and implemented nationally, a report says.

Social media giants will be slapped with "harsh" fines if they allow children under 14 to create accounts and risk lawsuits from parents of children who suffer harm, under draft South Australian laws the government says are suitable for all jurisdictions. A report by former High Court Chief Justice Robert French released on Sunday includes a draft bill with the legislative framework to ban children under 14 from social media.

"The regulator can undertake action and also, at the most severe end, pursue civil penalties of a seven-figure sum or more against these platforms in the event that they break the law," he said. "We want to create a big, massive deterrent against these giant companies where they do harm to our children.

 

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