nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b485174a4bd7eb6e DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 241205s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b485174a4bd7eb6e doi eng 342 23 Joseph, Sarah Author aut Why Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids May Breach Its Constitution Joseph, Sarah Verfassungsblog 2024-12-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 29 November 2024, the Australian federal Parliament enacted a world-first law, which imposed a minimum age for access to most social media sites in the country. The law will not come into full force for at least twelve months, to give time to social media platforms to devise appropriate methods for verifying the ages of users. The law might be a rare example that fails the proportionality test. Social media companies have the means and incentive to mount a constitutional challenge to find out; surely they are going to do so. CC BY-SA 4.0 Implied freedom Political Communication Proportionality Social Media Social Media (DE-588)4639271-3 gnd Social Media Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/why-australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-may-breach-its-constitution/ raw object