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Social Media Ban Is Really About…

British Parents Discover Social Media Ban Is Really About Turning Teenagers Into Conversation Partners Again LONDON — Westminster confirmed this week that under-16s will be barred from TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube by spring 2027, a policy parents across the country have greeted with the cautious optimism of a man defusing a bomb he built himself. For fifteen years, British households have run on a simple and elegant truce. The…

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Australia Social Media Ban

Australia Bans Teens From Social Media, Accidentally Discovers Teens Have Been Online Longer Than the Government The Australian government announced this week that it has successfully removed thousands of social media accounts belonging to children, only to discover moments later that most of them were SEO bots, several were abandoned cryptocurrency projects from 2021, and at least one was a motivational quote page run by a Labrador in Brisbane. Prime…