澳大利亚计划因禁止16岁以下青少年使用社交媒体服务，将Meta（原Facebook）、TikTok、Snap以及谷歌旗下的YouTube告上法庭。通信部长阿妮卡·威尔斯（Anika Wells）向彭博社表示，电子安全专员朱莉·因曼·格兰特（Julie Inman Grant）正在利用新获得的权力来准备相关诉讼材料。
Australia expects to take Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google’s YouTube to court over its social media ban for under-16s. Communications Minister Anika Wells told Bloomberg that the eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is using new powers to build the case.
在悉尼接受彭博社记者安格斯·惠特利（Angus Whitley）采访时，威尔斯明确指出，Facebook、Instagram、TikTok、Snapchat和YouTube是面临法律诉讼的五家平台。目前，相关诉讼尚未正式提起。
Wells named Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube as the five services facing legal action, in an interview in Sydney with Bloomberg’s Angus Whitley. No case has been filed yet.
“现在她拥有更多权力来收集证据，以便将这些公司告上联邦法院，”威尔斯告诉彭博社。“她正在利用这些权力来准备诉讼材料。”这项禁止青少年使用社交媒体的规定自2025年12月起生效，尽管青少年们一直在试图绕过这一禁令。电子安全委员会（eSafety）于今年3月启动了对这些平台合规情况的调查；8月份公布的数据显示，青少年使用TikTok的比例下降了1个百分点。
“Now she has more powers to be able to gather the evidence that she needs to take those five companies to the Federal Court,” Wells told Bloomberg. “She’s now using those powers to prepare her case.”A ban that teens have kept getting around The ban has been in force since December 2025. eSafety opened investigations into platform compliance in March. Data published in August put the fall in teen TikTok use at one percentage point.
这些平台均表示自己遵守了相关法规。Meta在8月份表示，已删除了澳大利亚境内75万个被认定为属于16岁以下青少年的Facebook和Instagram账户，并利用人工智能技术扫描用户的帖子、个人简介及配文，以识别与年龄相关的信息（如生日派对或学校成绩等线索）。
The platforms say they are complying. Meta said in August that it had removed access to more than 750,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts in Australia that it judged to belong to under-16s. It uses AI to scan posts, bios and captions for clues such as birthday parties or school grades.
Meta还提出了关于年龄验证应如何进行的建议：“我们主要担心的是，各平台在处理青少年用户的问题上缺乏统一的标准；应在操作系统或应用商店层面提供统一的、可靠的年龄验证机制。”威尔斯表示，苹果公司的首席执行官也支持这项禁令。
Meta also said where it thinks age checks should happen. “Our primary concern is that platforms are not taking a consistent approach to how they are removing teens. There should be a single reliable age signal delivered at the operating system or app store level,” Meta wrote. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said Apple’s chief executive backed the ban.
威尔斯还希望与各国建立全球联盟，共同推动大型科技公司重视儿童网络安全问题。她在接受彭博社采访时透露，已与马来西亚、菲律宾、新西兰、加拿大和英国的同行进行了沟通，未来几周内还将与更多国家展开进一步对话。
Wells wants a global alliance Wells is also building a coalition of countries to press the biggest tech companies on child safety, she told Bloomberg in a separate exclusive interview. She has held talks with counterparts in Malaysia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden and the UK, with more lined up in the coming weeks.
“这些是世界上资源最丰富、最强大的公司，”韦尔斯说。“这需要全球各地的立法者组成联盟共同应对。”她的蓝图是政府上周提出的《数字照护义务法案》。该法案将要求从社交媒体到人工智能聊天机器人等数字服务，保护18岁以下用户免受虐待、霸凌和色情内容侵害。提供商将须每年评估对用户的风险。
“These are the most resourced, powerful companies in the world,” Wells said. “It’s going to take a coalition of lawmakers working together across the globe to take them on.”Her template is the Digital Duty of Care bill, which the government proposed last week. It would require digital services, from social media to AI chatbots, to protect under-18s from abuse, bullying and pornography. Providers would have to assess the risks to users every year.
该法案还将允许用户关闭算法推荐信息流。违规者将面临高达1.092亿澳元（约合7620万美元）的罚款。韦尔斯希望该法案在年底前通过，法律在12个月后生效。
The bill would also let users switch off algorithmic feeds. Breaches would carry fines of up to A$109.2m ($76.2m). Wells wants it passed by the end of the year, with the law taking effect 12 months later.
澳大利亚绿党希望罚款按全球营收比例设定，并赋予在网上受到伤害的人起诉的权利。韦尔斯表示她会考虑这两点。特朗普政府已经对该法案提出异议，警告称澳大利亚针对美国科技公司的规则有蔓延至海外的风险。“我们正在打一场传播战，也是一场执法战，”韦尔斯说。
The Australian Greens want fines set as a share of global revenue, and a right for people harmed online to sue. Wells said she would consider both. The Trump administration has already objected to the bill, warning that Australia’s rules on US tech companies risk spreading overseas. “We are fighting a communications war as well as an enforcement battle,” Wells said.