Australia proposes ban on social media for children under 16 Paytm founder supports move

Australia has taken a big decision regarding the use of social media. The government is going to ban social media. Now the discussion has started heating up regarding the impact of social media on human mental and physical health. A voice seems to be rising across the world regarding how social media is making humans more and more lonely. His healthy life is slowly being snatched away from him. Now the Australian government has decided to ban the use of social media below a certain age.

Australia is soon going to ban social media for users 16 years of age or older. A policy has been prepared here which has been prepared with the aim of preventing the youth from falling into online risk. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that the government is introducing policies to protect the mental health of the country’s children. The decision is quite tough. The government is preparing to implement it by next year. Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma has praised this step. Sharma supported this move of the Australian government by sharing a post on his X handle.

Prime Minister Albanese said that social media is harming children. It is dangerous for the youth also. This kind of content is emerging on social media which is misleading children and youth. The law would essentially impose an age limit on major platforms without any exemptions, making Australia’s new policy one of the strictest internationally.

For this, platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Till now no country has taken such a step where such stringent criteria have been used for login on social media platforms. After the implementation of this law, it will be the responsibility of the social media platforms to prevent underage users from logging on to their platforms.