{"id":21511,"date":"2025-11-21T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/?post_type=article&#038;p=21511"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:46","slug":"social-media-age-restrictions-from-the-nsw-government-and-the-nsw-police-force","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/article\/social-media-age-restrictions-from-the-nsw-government-and-the-nsw-police-force\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSocial Media Age Restrictions\u201d from the NSW Government and the NSW Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From 10 December 2025, the Australian Government will enforce a social media minimum age of 16 years through the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This legislation mandates that age-restricted social media platforms must take \u201creasonable steps\u201d to ensure that Australians under the age of 16 are unable to access, maintain or create accounts. The primary obligation for compliance rests with the platforms, overriding any consideration for parental consent. Please refer to the linked flyer<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DGBw6dhDAKOT8ELMkRE3LoBjCC2x5Kcg\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cSocial media Age Restrictions\u201d from the NSW Government and the NSW Police Force<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Please visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esafety.gov.au\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">eSafety website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for further details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21512\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-768x1087.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-1085x1536.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-1447x2048.jpg 1447w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction-106x150.jpg 106w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/11\/Social-Media-Age-Restriction.jpg 1587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 10 December 2025, the Australian Government will enforce a social media minimum age of 16 years through the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024. This legislation mandates that age-restricted social media platforms must take \u201creasonable steps\u201d to ensure that Australians under the age of 16 are unable to access, maintain or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-21511","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/21511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}