Two major changes to how Australians use the internet will come into force next month.

From December 10, anyone under 16 will lose access to accounts on nine major social media platforms. This includes Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Snapchat. The youth social media ban has been heavily promoted by the federal government and is now widely recognised. Teenagers are already hunting for workarounds, and public pushback has begun. A petition against the ban has tens of thousands of signatures and is spreading through TikTok.

A second change is incoming less than three weeks later. On December 27, search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing will be required to determine a user’s age before deciding what they can show in search results. The new rules are part of a set of industr

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