This coming Wednesday, Australia will enact a landmark social media ban that could become a blueprint for other countries to follow.

Starting Dec. 10, all Australians under the age of 16 will be banned from social media. The list of banned platforms currently includes TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit, Kick and Twitch, but it’s due to grow.

Discord, Roblox, Pinterest, WhatsApp and many more were excluded from the ban, but will continue to be monitored. AI chatbots, which have been under significant scrutiny globally for lacking safety guardrails that have allegedly led to the death of some teens, are so far spared from the ban but previous reports claim that at least OpenAI’s Sora was on the regulator’s radar.

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