{"id":34800,"date":"2025-07-31T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34800\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:23:22","slug":"debate-over-child-safety-and-age-gating-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34800\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate over child safety and age-gating the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, you now have to prove that you&#8217;re 18 before you can access pornography on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s not far behind. By the end of this year, we&#8217;re expecting new laws that&#8217;ll stop under-16s from accessing social media \u2014 part of the same global trend to age-gate the internet. So what does this look like in practice, and will it work?<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dan Angus, Director of the Queensland University Technology&#8217;s Digital Media Research CentreProfessor Tama Leaver, Chief investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the UK, you now have to prove that you&#8217;re 18 before you can access pornography on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[31879,64,63,237,10356,28538,105],"class_list":["post-34800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-age-verification","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-internet","tag-online-safety","tag-social-media-ban","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}