X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

X has a new argument against sweeping underage social media bans that would limit usage of its platform: They interfere with international law. The social media platform, which sits within Elon Musk’s SpaceX, issued a submission to the Australian parliament published Tuesday that called for the government to drop efforts to strengthen its underage social media ban. It complained that the proposals to increase pressure on sites to demonstrate efforts to crack down on underage access are unnecessary, ill-suited, unfair, and could violate privacy rights. X pushed back against the “highly invasive...