Australia Social Media Ban to Save Young From ‘Purgatory’

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00:00In one week, Australia will become the first country in the world to ban under-16s from

00:06having social media accounts.

00:09With one law, we can protect Generation Alpha from being sucked into purgatory by predatory

00:16algorithms described by the man who created the feature as behavioural cocaine.

00:22If a child has a social media account on 10 December, then that platform is breaking

00:28the law.

00:29And if YouTube even this morning is reminding us all that it is not safe and that there

00:34is content not appropriate for age-restricted users on their website, then that is a problem

00:40that YouTube needs to fix.