{"id":187446,"date":"2025-12-12T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187446\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:23:07","slug":"will-australias-social-media-ban-for-children-come-to-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187446\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Australia\u2019s social media ban for children come to Ireland? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/\">Australia<\/a> became the first country in the world to impose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/2025\/12\/10\/social-media-ban-for-children-aged-under-16-begins-in-australia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/australia\/2025\/12\/10\/social-media-ban-for-children-aged-under-16-begins-in-australia\/\">social media ban<\/a> for children aged 16 and under. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Welcomed by parents there but criticised by big tech and some free-speech advocates, the ban will see companies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/facebook\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/instagram\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/instagram\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a> face massive fines if they fail to take reasonable steps to remove the social media accounts of Australian children. And to stop children getting such accounts in the first place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland is also taking steps to make children safer online, with a Government push to design a digital wallet linked to social security numbers as proof of age. And the Department of Health\u2019s online safety taskforce will also lay out its proposals today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Irish Times Political Correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/author\/ellen-coyne\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/author\/ellen-coyne\/\">Ellen Coyne<\/a> explains the Government\u2019s advanced plans to protect children from accessing harmful material online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Suzanne Brennan and Andrew McNair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, Australia became the first country in the world to impose a social media ban for children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,99822],"class_list":["post-187446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-social-media-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187446","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=187446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}