Bryce Corbett

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Now, not every teen sees it that way, though.

Some kids are reportedly seeing the benefits.

14-year-old Grace, for example, was quoted in The Guardian as saying that the ban helped her realise, and I quote, that we sometimes depend on social media a bit too much.

Hallelujah to that, Grace.

Yeah, they have, Andrew.

They say it's unworkable and that it fails to take into account the positive impact that social media can have.

And Reddit has actually launched a legal challenge against the ban in the high court, but that's more to do with Reddit arguing that it's not actually a social media platform.

It says rather it's a, and I quote, knowledge sharing platform, which seems to be splitting hairs a little bit.

And look, if you listen to my 16-year-old daughter on the subject of splitting hairs, she's ticked off that Snapchat is caught in the ban.

She was telling me last night that it's a messaging app, not a social media app.

So even amongst kids, there's a lot of nuance to all of this.

Yeah, no, he's not a fan of it, calling it an unmitigated disaster and an embarrassment.

So not mincing any words there.

But his concern is very much different to Big Tech's concerns.

He says that any policy ensuring that users have to hand over data is

even facial recognition data, to a big tech company is bad news.

And he furthermore said that the focus should be on educating adults on how to use parental controls instead of banning kids from social media.

Now that leads me very neatly to what we're doing here at The Squiz, as we've long argued that education of kids is going to be crucial to us avoiding any kind of a social media-inspired Armageddon.

And listeners here will know, because I bang on about it endlessly, that Squeeze Kids' News Hounds program is teaching primary school kids to stop, think, and check before believing everything they see online.