How do you remove children from the harms of social media? Politically the answer appears simple in Australia, but practically the solution could be far more difficult. The Australian government’s plan to ban children from social media platforms including X,

While the planned social media ban has broad support, more than 140 technology and child welfare experts signed an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling it “too blunt an instrument” to be effective.

Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton claims the Albanese Labor government has been too slow in enforcing a social media ban for children under the age of 16.