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Meta says it’s trying to make Instagram safer for teens by automatically putting users under 18 into new “teen accounts.”
It’s also adding optional parental supervision features that let parents see who their teen has messaged, view topics they look at and set daily time limits. pic.twitter.com/q07WQD1iIi
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) September 17, 2024
Zuck is trying to preempt government action to “protect the children.”
Maybe it’s smart.
What the government wants to do to “protect the children” will completely destroy the internet.
Meta is putting Instagram users under the age of 18 into new “teen accounts” to allow parents greater control over their activities, including the ability to block children from viewing the app at night.
In an announcement made a week after the Australian government proposed restricting children from accessing such platforms, Meta says it is launching teen accounts for Instagram that will apply to new users. The setting will then be extended to existing accounts held by teenagers over time.
Changes under the teen account setting include giving parents the ability to set daily time limits for using the app, block teens from using Instagram at certain times, see the accounts their child is messaging and viewing the content categories they are viewing.
Teenagers signing up to Instagram are already placed by default into the strictest privacy settings, which include barring adults from messaging teens who don’t follow them and muting notifications at night.
However, under the new “teen account” feature users under the age of 16 will now need parental permission to change those settings, while 16-18 year olds defaulted into the new features will be able to change them independently. Once an under-16 tries to change their settings, the parental supervision features will allow adults to set new time limits, block access at night and view who their child is exchanging messages with.
It came after the Australian government last week announced plans to introduce legislation to parliament by the end of the year to raise the age children can access social media up to an as-yet-undefined age between 14 and 16.
But unlike other actions the company has taken recently – including by allowing EU users to opt-out of having their data used to train its AI model but not offering a similar option in Australia – Meta’s move is global and will apply to the US, UK and Canada as well as Australia.
Parents apparently do not have any responsibility to raise their kids anymore.
Just like it’s the school’s job to decide your children’s sexuality, it’s Facebook’s job to prevent them from killing themselves.
Australia plans to set a minimum age requirement for social media use by children due to health concerns, but digital rights groups warn it might drive harmful behavior underground https://t.co/D7VVR7qmrd pic.twitter.com/2xTPM7gZxJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 10, 2024
