Australia plans to ban children from social media. Is checking and enforcing an age block possible?

"The Australian government plans to introduce legislation to prevent children under a specified age from accessing social media, with a defined age likely between 14 and 16."

"The age assurance trial is funded by a $6.5 million budget allocation, aimed at developing methods to enforce the age restrictions on children using social media platforms."

"Currently, no uniform method exists for age verification across platforms such as Instagram, which implements only limited checks using ID."

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