{"id":183238,"date":"2025-12-09T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:00:07","slug":"australias-world-first-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-comes-into-effect-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183238\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s comes into effect – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘As a young person with a disability, banning social media will make my world smaller’published at 13:55 GMT<\/p>\n

13:55 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter<\/p>\n

\"Ezra<\/p>\n

Ezra Sholl, 15, from Melbourne, is quadriplegic and says social media has given him access to a community of like-minded people.<\/p>\n

Ezra was diagnosed with Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, which triggered a rare nerve condition that has paralysed him.<\/p>\n

“I follow the NBA, Australian rules football, I follow movie accounts and music accounts,” he says ahead of the ban coming into effect.<\/p>\n

“Banning social media will make my world smaller,” he tells me via Facebook messenger. (Facebook is one of the platforms affected by the new rules<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Social media accounts connect him with his friends, he says. “As a young person with a disability, taking away access to social media has the potential to cause harm as well.”<\/p>\n

He agrees that social media can cause harm to young people, but “social media companies owe a duty to make their platforms safe. The ban itself is a band aid solution that doesn\u2019t actually fix the issues”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘As a young person with a disability, banning social media will make my world smaller’published at 13:55 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-183238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}