Jonathan Haidt

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Hard Fork · Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

We're going to say that you have to be 16 to open an account where you sign a contract to give away your data, your rights, without your parents' knowledge or permission.

You can't do that until you're 16.

At 16, you can do whatever you want.

But before 16, you can't do that.

And so here's the question.

What percentage of Australia's kids will actually be off of social media?

And we don't know.

If the Australia bill is effective at getting social media use down below, say, 20 percent, then I think we will see over time – kids have to sort of remember how to do other things other than scroll.

I think we will see benefits, especially if the Australians do the full program, which is, hey, go out and play, which is what the – that's what the prime minister keeps saying.

Go out on the footy field, he says.

Yeah.

So if we can succeed in restoring a play-based childhood, then we're going to see, I think, big benefits to mental health.

Yeah.

First of all, tell me when we get to, say, 60 or 70 percent of kids actually being off.

And so the effectiveness matters.

And this is a cat and mouse game.

So the companies are going to have to up their game.

So we'll see.

But once we get to, say, 70 percent of kids are actually off, now we've broken the collective action trap.

Now kids can be off.

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