In a commentary, SMU Vice President (Partnerships and Engagement) and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Communication & Technology Lim Sun Sun opined that in the efforts to keep minors safe online, there are lessons to be drawn from Australia’s ban, Brazil’s tighter rules and Singapore’s Codes of Practice for Online Safety. Rather than imposing heavy regulation that invites workarounds, she noted that Singapore’s approach holds tech firms accountable through assessments and oversight, while pushing them to invest their resources in safer digital design. She added that regulators should go beyond content moderation to require platforms to remove features that drive excessive use or harm wellbeing, such as push notifications, infinite scroll, autoplay, autoscroll, beauty filters and sycophantic chatbots.