In just over a month, kids under the age of 16 will be banned from accessing Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Kick in Australia.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, a governmental agency responsible for overseeing—you guessed it—online safety, says that beginning on December 10, 2025, these platforms “must take reasonable steps to ensure users under 16 do not hold an account.”

Just what those “reasonable steps” are, we aren’t entirely sure yet.

changes coming to Australian social media

The big question is how these nine platforms will verify users’ ages. It sounds like each will have some leeway in deciding which methods to use, but nobody will be forced to use a government ID.

“The Social Media Minimum Age legislation specifically prohibits platfo

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