AUSTRALIA_ Campaign Group, Teens Ask High Court to Block Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under-16s (Victoria Friedman - THE EPOCH TIMES)

THE EPOCH TIMES

Campaign Group, Teens Ask High Court to Block Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under-16s

In November 2024, Australia became the first country to pass a law on a social media ban for children under 16 from several platforms.

A woman holds a phone displaying the X app, in this file photo, on Aug. 11, 2024. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch Times


Victoria Friedman
11/26/2025|Updated: 11/26/2025


A campaign group on Nov. 26 brought a legal challenge against Canberra’s social media ban for Australians under 16—set to come into effect on Dec. 10—with two 15-year-olds as plaintiffs.

The Digital Freedom Project (DFP) said in a statement that it, along with Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, had filed proceedings in the High Court in Australia to challenge the ban.

The DFP called the law an “unfair and unreasonable trespass into free speech” that will rob 2.6 million young Australians of their access to the modern, digital town square.

“The basis of the case is [that] this law trespasses on the Constitutional right of freedom of political communication and is therefore unlawful,” the group said.

“Digital Freedom Project asserts that the legislation is grossly excessive, and that the government has not taken any of the multiple other options short of a blanket ban to keep young people safe on social media.”

Jones said in the statement he was “disappointed in a lazy government that blanket bans under-16’s rather than investing in programs to help kids be safe on social media.”

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READ MORE: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/campaign-group-teens-ask-high-court-to-block-australias-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-5950123?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-1

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Jones said in the statement he was “disappointed in a lazy government that blanket bans under-16’s rather than investing in programs to help kids be safe on social media.”

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