Bryce Corbett

And more parents are monitoring their kids' social media use as well.

And there's also some indication that online bullying has dropped by 9%, according to the poll.

And that's obviously a good thing.

Yeah, and look, if my kids' online habits are any indication, I'm not sure the creation of fake accounts is an especially new phenomenon.

But the eSafety Commissioner says that it is starting to work on ways to make the creation of fake accounts more difficult.

Now, how they do that, who can say?

Meanwhile, an earlier report from the Commission said

from a couple of months back says that there are more than two-thirds of Aussie kids under 16 that are still on social media platforms, which is not quite the wholesale reduction in numbers that it might have been hoping for.

And the YouGov poll indicates that that number has likely only grown.

Yeah, and that was interesting because it found that, and we're quoting here, most banned teens believe their peers are still using banned platforms, most describe circumvention as easy, and most non-compliers point to social forces.

namely friends still being on the platforms and fear of missing out the dreaded FOMO as the reason why they continue to use social media.

So this report essentially saying that one of the problems with the ban is that social media is still, for want of a better word, cool.

Indeed.

Indeed.

Yeah, and a spokesperson for the communications minister, Annika Wells, who is the minister, of course, in charge of running all of this, says that her frustration is with how the social media companies are going about things.

She said, and I quote, the social media ban isn't failing, big tech is failing to comply with the law, unquote.

And she's also said that it's been a success because of the attention that it's getting here and around the world, and says that parents have been telling her about the, and here I quote again, the sheer relief they feel being released by the grip of social media.

Yes, he most certainly is.

He has also said that he hasn't been kicked off any platforms since the ban was introduced.

As you've said, he's part of a high court challenge, which is being run by the Digital Freedom Project, which is challenging the ban on the basis that every Australian should have a constitutional right to exist freely online.