Hayley Caronia

And if these platforms are caught with younger kids on them, they will face fines to up to $49.5 million.

if they do not comply.

That's a lot of moolah for these companies to have to cough up for every kid under 16 that is caught on these platforms.

Now, it's supposed to encourage kids to actually get to talk to each other, get outside, be social, not digitally social, but literally social in the regular sense of the word that we all grew up with.

And I can get behind that.

That is a nice sentiment.

But unfortunately, the cat is already out of the bag.

I mean, if I grew up on social media, kids now are certainly growing up on social media and they're not stopping.

These kids are way more digitally minded and social media savvy than the people in the government trying to shut this down.

And, you know, Anika Wells projected that kids are going to bypass this ban and they've already started to do that.

If there's a will, there is a way.

And like I said, these kids are smarter than these platforms anyway.

Kids are using dog photos, VPNs and fake IDs.

How Australian teens are beating the social media ban.

And this is literally the day that the ban went into effect.

So they are already they knew that the ban was coming.

They've already figured out ways to get around it.

So they're doing that by.

using their parents' accounts, so their parents already had social media accounts, kids are just gonna log on and use their parents' accounts, or they have their parents start new accounts for them.

So the parent can just start a second account, say that it's their second account, and then the kids can use them, okay?