Neil Freiman

The key is that who they're making responsible for enforcing this is the social media companies.

They are they're telling the social media companies that you have to take a reasonable steps.

That's the quote reasonable to enforce this ban or else be fined about 32 million dollars for serious or repeated breaches.

Children and parents are not going to be infringed for and are not going to be punished for anything.

any type of infringement.

So the onus is completely on the social media companies, which is something that they've balked at and said, we can't actually enforce this.

We're going to do our best because you will fine us a lot of money if not.

But the fact is that parents and kids aren't going to be punished at all for this.

So it gives them a little less of an incentive to not do it.

There's a lot of evidence that kids will circumvent these bans.

At a large poll of Australian 9- to 16-year-olds, only 6% of them thought the new ban was going to work.

Three-quarters of all children polled said that they were going to continue to use social media, whether that's through a VPN or they'll just migrate to other social media sites.

And in fact, two 15-year-olds in Australia filed...

a constitutional challenge to the law saying that it infringes on their rights of freedom and participation in political communication.

One of them, Noah Jones, said, do you want 15-year-old boys to have no clue about consent?

Do you want teenagers who don't know about the dangers of vaping?

Both topics I've learned about on social media.

And that's one of the main criticisms of this law is that

How do kids learn about the world these days is going on YouTube and watching videos and looking at Instagram and TikTok.

Yes, there's a lot of crap out there, but at the same time, there's a lot of educational tools, and that's how they learn about the world and become informed citizens.