The teen social media ban is being changed on the fly

The federal government made a shocking conceptual change to its “world-first” social media ban on teenagers a few weeks ago.

Since the policy launched in December, much of the attention has been on how the government will deal with widespread circumvention of the ban by Australians under 16; There was data and plenty of anecdotal evidence to show that large numbers of children were still using social media accounts as normal.

There’s some new data that reinforces just how big of an issue this is: The Molly Rose Foundation, a UK-based nonprofit providing children’s online protection, participated in the survey. cricket He says 60% of Australian 12-15 year olds are still on social media.