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Social media opt-out mulled to stem harmful content
The proposal follows warnings that young people are being fed misogynistic content within 23 minutes of joining social platforms, officials said.
- Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek proposed allowing users to opt in or out of social media algorithms, warning young boys encounter violent content within 23 minutes of downloading apps.
- This push follows the death of a 16-year-old girl in Sydney last week linked to sexual strangulation, amid findings that 57% of 18 to 35-year-olds have experienced such acts.
- Plibersek confirmed the government is "seriously looking" at replicating UK-style laws to criminalize pornography depicting strangulation, which officials argue should not be treated as "just another form of adult entertainment."
- Separately, officials are weighing a 12-month moratorium on importing smart glasses that record covertly, with Greens Senator David Shoebridge calling them "a disturbing technology" bypassing privacy safeguards.
- Education Minister Jason Clare announced a review of school consent programs, while the government develops a "digital duty of care" framework requiring tech companies to proactively prevent online harms.
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‘Pervasive and deadly’: Federal government to consider a ban on choking porn
Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek said the government was considering additional reforms to stop young people being exposed to violent or misogynistic content online.
·North Sydney, Australia
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