Zoe McKenzie

We have a beautiful set of, because we've passed this reform, some of the ads have come up to my Pollyanna politician feed because it knows I like these things, is kids talking about, it's meant to be kids from the 90s talking about all the fun things they did and they said, what do you mean?

We'd sit in front of a screen for eight hours a day.

I've got a bike to ride, man.

And it's just this beautiful nostalgic reminiscence of our childhoods.

But I was thinking, I was listening to your podcast and thinking,

What did I do when I was little when I was bored?

I think I just stomped around the house and said to my mother repeatedly, I am bored.

And she'd go, good on you.

Eventually you'll find something to do.

And we did, right?

But we had much more outdoors lives.

I hesitate to say I felt that our lives were safer, but I'm not sure if that's true.

Like if you read the books of Jonathan Haidt, Gregor Keanov, Gene Twengey,

You know, we've moved into this kind of safetyist obsession and we think the kids are safer on the couch with the device in their hand than they may have been on a bike down at the mall or hanging out at the shops or at the park with their friends.

And I don't know which is true.

I do know that we are all now as parents incredibly focused on physical threats to our kids and who they might be

running into down the street but we don't know who they're running into on the ipad either you know exactly in the last parliament on the parliamentary joint committee for intelligence and national security well those devices are the number one vector for radicalization and extremism as well right and so in our comments and the inquiry that we did on this social media plan it wasn't just about

mental health.

It wasn't just about the way kids are spending their time.

It was also that this thing is a vector for radicalization.