News & Reviews:   minors

Spain and Greece have announced plans to ban minors from accessing social media for security reasons. So, what should you know about it?

Australia is tightening restrictions on social media access for users under the age of 16 by adding Reddit and Kick to a blacklist. Under the new restrictions, sites that allow access to underage users could face fines of A$49.5 million (~RM135 million) when the bill comes into effect on December 10.

During the pandemic, more and more people have started to sign up for other social media accounts and make their own short clips. This includes TikTok and it has definitely caught a lot of attention from the youngsters, even to the point of making Instagram thinking of changing its business model to video sharing.

However, there is bound to be inappropriate videos here and there, and there are many minors below 13 years old joining the platform as well. In case you didn't know, you must be at least 13 years old and above to use it and turned out that there were many as 7 million of them pretending to be one.