Messaging app says any changes in the law should be left for companies such as Apple or Google to enforce
Snapchat has hit back against the push to raise the age for allowing teenagers on social media to 16 and said it should be left to companies such as Apple or Google to enforce, if the law changes.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “The age might be 13, the age might be 16, but not every 13-year-old is the same, and not every 14, 15, 16-year-old is the same,” she said. “They have a certain degree of a maturity level that’s associated with where they are in life.”
But Snapchat is often cited as a common platform used for bullying outside the classroom, and by criminals engaged in sextortion by seeking out nudes from users and threatening to leak them unless the victim pays up.in 2022 after a fake nude of her was shared by other students on Snapchat, has called for parliament to ban under 16s from social media. She told the social media inquiry it should be similar to cigarette bans for under 18s – enforced by police and the courts.
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