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An expert has quit over the government's planned social media ban, what now?
One of the experts advising the teen social media ban's tech trial has resigned over concerns about its planned 'age assurance' technology. Between uploading government ID documents to US tech companies and using AI to scan and identify people's ages, it's still unclear how this ban is going to be enforced. Is there a better solution we're missing here?
Also, how can we ban social media if we can't decide what it actually is? YouTube has been classified and de-classified as social media throughout the process of developing the bill, and the definition may be more important than we realise when it comes to drawing a technological line in the sand for this ban.
Plus, remember the metaverse? The non-Zuckerberg version of the Metaverse is back in the news this week with a new Standard out that could drastically impact teenagers safety online.
GUESTS:
Emily van der Nagel , lecturer in social media at Monash University
, lecturer in social media at Monash University
Jocelyn Brewer, founder of Digital Nutrition and psychologist
This episode of Download This Show was made on Gadigal land and in Naarm.
Technical production by Ann-Marie de Bettencour and Ross Richardson.
