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Australia became the first country to ban social media for under-16s, but on day one, teens lost their accounts — and with them, parental controls, content filters, and safety protocols. Over 70% are still on the platforms. The solution: harvest everyone's biometric data.
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Manoush steelmans the pro-ban position: everyone agrees tech companies exploit human psychology, allow dangerous actors into communities, and resist accountability. If conventional regulation is failing, isn't using teens as a rallying cry a legitimate alarm bell? Odgers pushes back with a medical analogy: if someone falsely claimed purple dye caused pediatric cancer, she would want a pediatric oncologist to stand up and correct the record — even if the cause of child cancer is harder to explain [1] — Candice Odgers "Instead of prosecuting online harm and regulating tech companies, adults are banning teens from the digital spaces where they socialize, fi…" 12:00 . Allowing a false narrative to stand, she argues, redirects resources, shames vulnerable young people, and gives tech companies exactly the political cover they need. When platforms announce that children are off their services in response to bans, the regulatory pressure dissipates — even when data from streaming device logs shows teens are still actively using those platforms. Banning kids, not cleaning up content, becomes the definition of 'fixing' the internet.
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