Australia asks GitHub if it's a dangerous social network • The Register

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has written to GitHub to ask it to consider if it’s a social network that endangers children.

The reason for the cyber-safety regulator’s correspondence is Australia’s imminent requirement that some social media platforms restrict access to Australian residents under 16 years of age, on the grounds that such services can be harmful to children.

The ban on providing service to kids under 16 starts on December 10th, but the eSafety Commission – Australia’s cyber-safety regulator – does not decide which platforms have obligations to block children under Australia’s Online Safety Act. The Commission has said that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube “meet many of the conditions” in the Act.

But it’s also written to many other services – see t