Media-manufactured moral panics come and go. That so many Labor and Coalition politicians have succumbed to this latest one, so unthinkingly, is frightening.
Maybe the Greens are right after all. Maybe the voting age should be lowered to 16. Maybe that’s the only way to stop Baby Boomer politicians like Anthony Albanese (born in 1963) from treating young Australians with contempt.
The Labor government’s ban on anyone under the age of 16 using social media, including applications such as TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, X, and Reddit, is arbitrary, draconian, and entirely out of proportion to the problems some children suffer on some social media.
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John Roskam is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter.
