Day one of the social media summit got underway in Sydney with the aim of exploring and addressing the impacts of social media on young children. Both the New South Wales and South Australia governments are pushing to adopt a first of its kind nationally consistent age restriction.
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00:00Logging in is about to get a whole lot trickier for school children.
00:07We've got real change on the table and that is a national ban on social media for young
00:12people.
00:13The South Australian proposal is backed by both the New South Wales and federal governments.
00:20Social media, unregulated, is doing our kids harm and it's now time for governments to
00:25step in.
00:26If it passes, a national age restriction could be enforced by the end of the year, but policy
00:33research group Reset Tech believes it falls short of any real change.
00:38Keeping 14 year olds off faulty products doesn't fix faulty products.
00:43She would prefer to see a policy around duty of care, putting the onus on the platforms
00:49to do what's right.
00:51Start to see them do things like algorithmic audits, start to see them make their platforms
00:55a safer space for young people and that can really try and change the way that young people
01:02use the digital world rather than just keeping them off it.
01:05It's something that's now mandated in Europe.
01:08Some young people are also doubtful a ban will work.
01:13I'm sceptical of how it will be enforced and I think you need to make social media companies
01:17accountable for that themselves.
01:19Others are more open minded.
01:21I feel like if I got rid of it it would be hard, but if everyone didn't have it I think
01:27it would be easier.
01:28The two day summit will continue tomorrow in Adelaide.