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Commissioner, you have exempted Blue Sky
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from your under 16 social media minimum
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Yet, Blue Sky is almost identical to X,
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as I understand it. It currently allows
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13year-olds or younger people saying
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they are 13 to sign up. They have no age
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Do you understand, Commissioner, you
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have an obligation to discharge your
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duties without the perception of
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political bias? Your decision to exempt
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a left-wing hangout and include a
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conservative hangout looks like
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Blue Sky has not been exempted
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uh from um they present a very low risk.
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We they have actually identified
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themselves as an age restricted social
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media platform. Um they probably have
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50,000 uh Australian users, a very small
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number of young users. They're building
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up their age inference tools. They're a
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very young uh company. And what we've
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decided to do, I mean, we're talking to
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a range of of companies that could be
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age restricted social media platforms,
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whether it's Yubo, whether it's Yope,
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whether it's Lemonade, other ones that
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we know we're going to go to. But, um,
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you missed the opening statement where I
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said our our focus, well, one, these
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assessments that we're doing are
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voluntary. It is up to the I don't have
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specific declaratory powers in terms of
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who is in, who's out. So, I can't say
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anyone's exempted. It's up to the legal
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teams of those uh companies to determine
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whether they're in or out. Where we will
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focus our compliance is where the vast
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majority of young people are. Um for the
