oxy Jacenko reveals why she thinks Australia needs a social media ban for children

Roxy Jacenko says she’s for a “proactive” societal media prohibition for children nether 16 years old, revealing she’s taken a radiance to absorption person Peter Dutton’s attack connected the issue.

“Peter Dutton’s proactive backing of the property bounds moving from 13 to 16 earlier successful the twelvemonth was without question critical,” she told news.com.au.

“It is singular that nether the Albanese enactment it sadly took the deaths by termination of respective children arsenic a effect of the impacts of societal media for him to really suggest and see addressing what is simply a large interest for truthful galore parents successful Australia.”

Peter Dutton announced successful June that if helium wins the adjacent election, the Coalition would instrumentality a societal media prohibition for children wrong the archetypal 4 months.

Mr Dutton appeared connected Sunrise and claimed that having a societal media relationship should beryllium akin to getting a license.

“There’s a batch of exertion successful spot to assistance with the property verification that’s not going to instrumentality people’s data. So I deliberation it’s a well-balanced approach,” helium said.

Ms Jacenko’s instrumentality mightiness look unexpected considering her 13-year-old girl Pixie is arguably 1 of Australia’s archetypal societal media kid stars.

Pixie has astir 200,000 Instagram followers and ran a palmy fidget concern that earned $200,000 successful its archetypal period erstwhile she was inactive successful superior school.

She “semi-retired” successful 2023 astatine the property of 11 aft throwing a day enactment that reportedly outgo $40,000.

She besides owns a Mercedes Benz that is worthy astir $270,000, and she requested a $9000 handbag for Christmas erstwhile she was 11.

Pixie became an full marque earlier she started precocious schoolhouse and it was hugely successful.

Jacenko antecedently claimed that Pixie could discontinue astatine 15 arsenic a millionaire, but her girl called it aboriginal to absorption connected precocious school.

While Pixie has decidedly taken a measurement backmost from the limelight, her Instagram is inactive active, and she has posted arsenic precocious arsenic 3 weeks ago.

With each that successful mind, Ms Jacenko’s sentiment mightiness look surprising, but there’s nary arguing that the 44-year-old businesswoman understands the downside of societal media.

“I fell into societal media with Pixie, who erstwhile I started her relationship she was conscionable three,” she said.

“It was caller and amusive and she loved taking photos and making videos with me.”

Ms Jacenko said her girl was making a “solid income,” and her societal media occurrence had fixed her galore astonishing opportunities, but it came astatine a cost.

Now that Pixie is simply a teenager, it isn’t “something she wants to beryllium portion of” anymore, but the equine has already bolted.

“Quite frankly, it opens her up to unnecessary attention, which she doesn’t similar and alienates her ‘as that’s that girl, Pixie,” she said.

“Something that nary genitor wants; you privation your kid to beryllium conscionable similar everyone other successful the playground – not the 1 singled out.”

Ms Jacenko said that the worst effect of societal media has been that erstwhile it is online, it is retired of your hands.

People tin instrumentality screenshots and doc images and circulate photos without your consent.

When Pixie was conscionable four, Jacenko claimed that her girl was a unfortunate of digitally altered and indecent images that were being circulated online by people.

Police acknowledged they were investigating the claims successful 2016, but nary charges were yet filed.

“The abstraction of societal media was truthful new, determination were nary laws backmost then, you could fundamentally bash what you privation and anyone’s expense,” Ms Jacenko said.

At the time, Ms Jacenko appeared connected The Morning Show and claimed the images circulating were “sick” and intended to embarrass.

“There’s thing worse than pedophilia. The worst happening is [my girl is] 4 years old. The radical who did it are known to me. If you’ve got a gripe with me, beryllium a mature adult, instrumentality it up with me, and don’t inflict information oregon embarrassment connected my four-year-old. It’s sick,” she said.

“No substance however caller societal media is successful the world, usage it respectfully. Don’t doc pictures into lewd situations for a 4 twelvemonth old! You’re a deranged, sick idiosyncratic to bash that!”

Even present Ms Jacenko is inactive rattled by the experience.

“Something I volition ne'er ever forget, and to this day, should immoderate 1 of those who participated successful this sick enactment came crossed me, they would privation to transverse the road, fast.” She said.