Anika Wells says the tech giants can’t claim they didn’t know this was coming:

We are still waiting on the age assurance final recommendations to come back and we will publish those as soon as possible when we get those.

I make the distinction, there has been 12 months allowed for this to happen. Social media platforms have been on notice since December last year that this was coming. They have had 12 months to work with the eSafety Commissioner to determine what that looks like for the individual platforms.

There is technology and each platform works differently. They are all competitors. They need to work on a one on one basis with the eSafety Commissioner. Reasonable steps is reasonable. We are backing parents.

The platforms have a responsibility, a social responsibility as the PM has said. The onus here is on the platforms. Come 10 December, if your kid has a Facebook log-in, Facebook account, it is on Facebook to deactivate that account.

It is not on the parent to police that on behalf of Facebook. There are four reasonable steps that platforms have to take. They have to deactivate existing accounts.

They need to make sure, no new accounts are activated and take reasonable steps to make sure any workarounds or mitigations because kids will find a way around this and maybe they will arm swarm on LinkedIn, we don’t know. These are meant to be working rules and they need to correct errors as they arise. These aren’t set and forget rules. They are set and support rules. They are world-leading but this is manifestly too important for us not to have a crack.