Australian technology veteran Daniel Petre says the Albanese government should force social media giants such as Facebook and Snapchat to develop systems to block underage access if it is serious about protecting children and teenagers from online harms.
Mr Petre said spending $6.5 million to trial technologies to restrict social media to older teenagers, rather than making the tech companies do it themselves, was a mistake.
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