Recently, Australia added message board Reddit and livestreaming service Kick to social media platforms that will ban children under 16 years old. Starting December 10th, these two platforms along with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube will be legally required to shut the accounts of younger Australian children.
 　Platforms that fail to take reasonable steps to exclude children younger than 16 could be punished with a fine of up to 50 million Australian dollars (about NT$1.06 billion).
 　Critics of the legislation fear that banning young children from social media will impact the privacy of all users, who must prove they are older than 16. However, Communications Minister Anika Wells said the government will try to keep platform users’ data as private as possible.
 　Australia is the first in the world to do this, so the move is being closely watched by countries that share concerns about social media impacts on young children.

　最近，澳洲政府在禁止16 歲以下兒少使用的社群媒體名單中，新增留言板Reddit和直播服務Kick。這兩個平臺以及臉書、Instagram、Snapchat、Threads、抖音、X 和YouTube 等，都被要求遵守相關法令，自12月10 日起關閉澳洲較年輕孩子的帳號。
　未能採取合理措施防止16 歲以下兒少使用的社群媒體平臺，可能被處以最高5 千萬澳元（約新臺幣10 億6 千萬元）的罰款。
　批評這項立法的人擔心，禁止兒少使用社群媒體會影響所有用戶的隱私，因為用戶必須提供個資證明自己已年滿16 歲。但澳洲通訊部長阿尼卡威爾斯表示，政府會盡最大努力保護平臺用戶的個資隱私。
　澳洲是全球第一個實施這項禁令的國家，所以，這項舉措也受到其他擔憂社群媒體會對兒少造成影響的國家的密切關注。