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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells take questions from school students during a pre-recorded press conference for the ABC's 'Behind The News' program at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, November 26, 2025. Albanese said he would be intimidated by threats and legal challenges. — AAP pic via Reuters
SYDNEY, Nov 26 —A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set to take effect.
A campaign group called the Digital Freedom Project said today it launched proceedings in the High Court of Australia in a bid to block the law, with two 15-year-olds, Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, as plaintiffs in the case.
More than one million accounts held by teenagers under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia when the ban on platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram starts on December 10.
In a statement today, the Digital Freedom Project said the ban “robs” young Australians of their freedom of political communication, an implied right in the constitution. Australia does not have an express right to free speech.
“The legislation is grossly excessive,” the statement said.
Neyland said the law would ban young people from expressing their views online.
“Young people like me are the voters of tomorrow ... we shouldn’t be silenced. It’s like Orwell’s book 1984, and that scares me,” she said.
The Digital Freedom Project’s president is John Ruddick, a member of the Libertarian Party in the New South Wales state Parliament.
After news of the legal challenge broke, Communications Minister Anika Wells told Parliament the centre-left government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, would not be intimidated by threats and legal challenges.
“Despite the fact that we are receiving threats and legal challenges by people with ulterior motives, the Albanese Labor government remains steadfastly on the side of parents, and not of platforms,” Wells said.
Australian media has reported that YouTube also threatened to launch a High Court challenge on the grounds the ban burdened political communication.
Governments and tech firms around the world are closely watching Australia’s effort to implement the ban, one of the most comprehensive efforts to police minors’ social media access.
The ban was passed into law in November 2024 and is supported by the majority of Australians, according to opinion polling.
The government said research showed the over-use of social media was harming young teens, including causing misinformation, enabling bullying and harmful depictions of body image.
Companies that fail to comply with the ban could face penalties of up to A$49.5 million (RM133 million). — Reuters
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