Sam Floreani (hi Sam!) points out in a Guardian opinion piece that Australian governments are happy to let you work, pay taxes and be criminally responsible to the point you can go to jail if you're under 16, but using Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram or TikTok? Absolutely not, can't be trusted, will ruin the fabric of society. In a separate Guardian story, Josh Taylor & Tamsin Rose remind us that the federal government's own investigation from August 2023 found that, quote "no countries have implemented an age verification mandate without issue" and even the eSafety Commissioner was told by their own staffers that "no country in the world has solved this problem".
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