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Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Meta closing teen accounts ahead of Aussie social media ban · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Murray old Aussie correspondents to that's a mus very good afternoon, Heather.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so it's just a couple of weeks, is it,
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  Speaker 3: and phase he's going to start kicking the kids off.
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  Speaker 2: Well a little bit longer. But in fact, the tenth
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  Speaker 2: of December is the date that this ban on under
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  Speaker 2: sixteen's using social media comes into force in Australia, first
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  Speaker 2: country in the world to do this. But what the
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  Speaker 2: big you know, the big social media giant, Meta has
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  Speaker 2: done is send out a warning letter, if you like,
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  Speaker 2: a warning email to all the kids who are on
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  Speaker 2: these platforms. In a fortnight, we're going to start turning
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  Speaker 2: off your accounts, so you either have to download or
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  Speaker 2: delete or you're going to lose the data. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: the children wanted to this, they have to have facial
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  Speaker 2: scans or prove that they're actually sixteen or over. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Metters told the federal government hundreds of thousands of accounts
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  Speaker 2: will be removed by December the tenth. Almost every single
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  Speaker 2: matter platform Heather's covered. The only exception appears to be Messenger,
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  Speaker 2: but things like Facebook, Insta, threads, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, raddit,
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  Speaker 2: kick x, the list goes on. All of these are
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  Speaker 2: going to be banned to under sixteens, along with lots
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  Speaker 2: of warning messages. Account Holders also being urged to provide
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  Speaker 2: contact details. I mean, this is a commercial opportunity here.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget kids. When you turn sixteen, come back, give
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  Speaker 2: us some contact details and we'll be in touch as
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  Speaker 2: soon as you turned sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a fair point that you make.
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  Speaker 2: This. What's going on? See how it works? Well?
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  Speaker 3: Do you are you a douter?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to know how on earth it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be policed. I mean, a mums and dad's
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  Speaker 2: going to do it. They've had a pretty poor job
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  Speaker 2: up to now. A mums and dad's going to be
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  Speaker 2: at this or the lawses? Please, it's is that going
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  Speaker 2: to work? Let's have to wait and see. I mean
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  Speaker 2: Australia is the game?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean look, does it have to work one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent beautifully perfectly for it to work?
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  Speaker 2: Now? I get that? I mean, you know the perfect
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  Speaker 2: count's down.
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  Speaker 3: In the way of the good, right exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you see how it goes. I'm a skeptic, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the only one too. But let's see.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because think about it like this, muzz right,
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  Speaker 3: we ban kids under the age of eighteen from buying fags.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes kids still manage to get the hands on fags,
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  Speaker 3: and but for that we don't go all better if
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  Speaker 3: that band, then we still think it's worth the band, right,
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  Speaker 3: because we still think it's worth true. Yeah, so I think,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it is fair to have some
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  Speaker 3: questions about this. But I just wonder if we're getting
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  Speaker 3: tripped up a little bit, as you say, worrying about
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  Speaker 3: the perfect when we can just try the good. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: tell me what's going on with these drive bys? Do
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  Speaker 3: we know what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Here was another well last night in Sydney, Southwest Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: There were three in four hours. Two homes and a
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  Speaker 2: business were shot up, but luckily no one hurt. In
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  Speaker 2: one of the home shootings, there was only one bullet.
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  Speaker 2: Five I say only one bullet. I mean they're not
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  Speaker 2: trying hard. Now police now investigating whether they're link. There
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  Speaker 2: were two cars set alight in the wake of these
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  Speaker 2: three shootings. Now police set up earlier this year a
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  Speaker 2: special task force because basically they've lost cannon a number
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  Speaker 2: of shootings this year alone. It's the underworld fighting each
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  Speaker 2: other over the drug trade. Extremely lucrative as you might
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  Speaker 2: expect in the city of five and a half six
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  Speaker 2: million people, a lot of people using Persian rugs and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money to be made when you sell
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  Speaker 2: and distribute them. So police, you know, they say they've
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  Speaker 2: got a handle on it, but she was last night
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  Speaker 2: three and four hours. Certainly doesn't seem so. The poor
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  Speaker 2: buggers who were copping the bullets us.
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  Speaker 3: Did you just say Persian rugs?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I may have done. I mean drugs. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Persian drugs. I thought, geez, the Persian rugs.
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  Speaker 1: I reckon.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a couple under the basement, like minded. Whip
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  Speaker 3: them out all right, buzz thanks, I really really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Murray Old's Australia corresponding.
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