{"id":11401,"date":"2024-09-13T05:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2024-09-13T05:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:24:02","slug":"banning-kids-from-social-media-wont-solve-anything-netsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11401","title":{"rendered":"Banning kids from social media won&#8217;t solve anything &#8211; Netsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calls to ban children under 16 from social media are a distraction from the real issues facing young people on the platforms, according to Netsafe.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian prime minister is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/527655\/should-we-follow-australia-s-efforts-to-ban-children-from-social-media\">vowing to get kids off their devices and on to the footy field<\/a>\u00a0by introducing a minimum social media age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>His New Zealand counterpart has said he is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/christopher-luxon-open-to-looking-at-social-media-minimum-age-as-australia-considers-new-law\/N2DZEFMVX5HSDGJCT2NR3QUDCI\/\">&#8220;up for looking&#8221; at the issue<\/a>. But Netsafe CEO Brent Carey believes a ban would just push any problems underground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Young people are missing from the conversation, and this is largely the online spaces,&#8221; he told RNZ&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We leave our young people at the age of 14 to babysit other people, or they can be left on their own by their parents, but we won&#8217;t be able to let them have Snapchat with their friends? It just doesn&#8217;t sort of ring true with how we treat young adults.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls to ban children under 16 from social media are a distraction from the real issues facing young people on the platforms, according to Netsafe. The Australian prime minister is\u00a0vowing to get kids off their devices and on to the footy field\u00a0by introducing a minimum social media age of 16. His New Zealand counterpart has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11403,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}