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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: We should consider following Australia in a social media ban
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I reckon we might want to consider doing what Australia's planning to do and banning the kids from using social media until they’re 16. Now at the moment, we don’t have a huge amount of detail on what's being proposed, but we do know that the Australians are planning to put in the highest age limit in the world. And then put the onus on social media companies to make this work, not parents or kids, or even the Government. So there will be an age verification tool, either biometrics or government ID, and the social media companies have to use it. They have to keep the kids off. And if they don’t, they get penalised. And this is exactly how it should work. Because if they aren’t forced to take responsibility, they won’t take responsibility. They will simply blame someone else and so oh it's the parents, it's the Government, they're not doing enough, and if there's one thing we can say with certainty, it's that the social media companies are not taking responsibility now. They know their product is bad for kids,