Elon Musk’s X has told Australia that its plan to tighten enforcement of a world-first ban on under-16s using social media would breach international law.
The company has trained its objection on a bill that would let the country’s online-safety regulator demand documents from people who live nowhere near Australia.
The complaint, reported by Reuters, arrives as Canberra prepares to put real force behind a law that is already on the books.
The ban took effect last December, and ministers now want to double the maximum fine and give the eSafety Commissioner sharper powers to gather evidence.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The law makes platforms, not parents or children, responsible for keeping the youngest users out. It covers the big social networks, X among them, and threatens penalties for any company that fails to take “reasonable steps” to verify a user’s age.
