Social media platforms must enforce age limit strictly, says Fahmi

The Star

The government remains committed to reminding social media platform providers to enforce age limit guidelines effectively.  Speaking to reporters after opening the 'Jelajah Peduli Ummah' programme on Sunday (Dec 8 ), Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil emphasised that if platforms fail to comply, discussions will be initiated to determine the most appropriate course of action to address the issue.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/393edvwu  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00In Indonesia, there is a law banning the use of social media. How do you see this?

00:12For Malaysia, at this time, we do not want to follow the footsteps of other countries

00:18by bringing a new law that restricts the use of social media.

00:27After the implementation of the social media platform, which started on January 1, 2025,

00:35we are eager to give support to the social media platforms.

00:43At this time, all platforms, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X,

00:53in their own community standards or guidelines,

01:00only allow people over the age of 13 to open an account on social media platforms.

01:10So, the assessment that we will do is how the platforms verify the age of the users.

01:21We will start with what the platforms do now.

01:28We will see if they can implement it or not.

01:32If not, we will discuss it after that.

01:36But we will start with the age that has been set by the platform.

01:41So, in Malaysia, it is not allowed?

01:43No. We use WhatsApp, the age is 16 years.

01:48So, after this, we want to know, if there are children who use it,

01:52why does WhatsApp allow children to use their platform?

01:55Whereas their platform, in their own rules, states that below 16 years old cannot use it.

02:01So, we will give confirmation that it does not need to be done by the platform itself.

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