科技巨头角力：谁应负责执行社交媒体青少年禁令

As governments around the world intensify efforts to shield young people from the harms of social media, a sharp conflict has emerged between the platforms themselves and the major app stores that distribute their apps. Social media executives from companies like Meta and Snap argue that Apple and Google should handle the heavy lifting of age verification at the point of download. This would create a uniform barrier before any app reaches a user’s device rather than forcing each platform to implement its own complex and costly checks. The debate has heated up amid recent legislative pushes in places like Canada, building on Australia’s pioneering under-16 ban that took effect in late 2025. …