Musk's X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law
X says the proposed enforcement changes could force foreign firms to hand over documents and raise the maximum penalty to A$99 million.
- On Tuesday, Elon Musk's SpaceX filed a submission with an Australian senate committee criticizing proposed legislation granting the Commissioner wider document discovery rights and fines up to $99 million.
- Australia's world-first law barring social media accounts for teenagers under 16 took effect last December, though Elon Musk previously labeled the ban a "backdoor way to control access to the internet by all Australians."
- The regulator told the panel its inability to compel documents from third-party age assurance providers creates "significant" barriers to investigations, though industry group DIGI argued the Commissioner already possesses extensive enforcement powers that remain untested.
- A United States congressional committee has requested the Commissioner testify, accusing the regulator of imperiling American free speech through aggressive pursuit of foreign companies.
- Parliament has yet to pass the bill increasing enforcement powers against platforms including YouTube and TikTok, with the senate committee scheduled to deliver final findings on August 25.
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X Warns Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Threatens International Legal Norms
Australia set out to shield its youngest citizens from the harms of social media. The country banned accounts for anyone under 16. The law took effect in December 2025. Platforms scrambled to delete millions of profiles. Yet new data shows the effort has fallen short. And now Elon Musk’s X is fighting back hard. The company filed a pointed submission to an Australian Senate committee this week. It objects to proposed amendments that would give t…
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X Warns Australia’s Censor Wants Reach Beyond Australia
by Cindy Harper, Reclaim The Net: Australians were told to hand over their faces to keep their accounts. The regulator would now like a look at the files. X has told the Australian Senate committee that a proposal expanding the powers of the nation’s top censor would let the regulator demand documents from people outside […]
Elon Musk's social network X accused Australia of attempting to grant unfair powers of information gathering to its internet regulator and of undermining US law by means of plans for a more rigid application of the ban on social networks for adolescents. Exclusive material for subscribers. To have full access, access the link of the subject and register.
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = As the Australian government, which was the first in the world to introduce social media account blocking for minors, pushes to strengthen its blocking policy, Elon Musk's Ex...
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