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Social Media Bans for Children Ignore the Reality of Digital Life
Parents are better served developing digital literacy skills than trying to recreate their own childhoods.
When Australia’s parliament passed legislation late last year banning under-16s from social media, anxious parents across the country breathed a collective sigh of relief.
“We want Australian children to have a childhood,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said as he introduced the legislation. We need to “get kids off phones and back on the footy field.”