How teens are already using their parents to get around Australia’s social media ban

  ‘I just put my mum’s face in for the facial verification and it worked,’ a 13-year-old told Crikey. 

The current trend with authoritarian moves in Australia, law changes targeted young people, whether to prevent them from committing crime or to protect them from it, then broadened out to the rest of the population.

E.g intoxicated teens stabbing each other has turned into compulsory wanding and searches by police in public.

We know that some of the engagement algorithms in use are exploitative. We know that people are susceptible to them. It's quite typical that children get protected against exploitation before adults are.

I just hope non-harmful media don't get tarred with the same brush.