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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Australia begins to enforce a ban on social media accounts for users under 16 years of age.

How is this rule expected to work?

Could it be brought to the United States as one potential 2028 presidential candidate

is already calling for Washington to follow suit.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the

editorial pages, Kim Strassel, columnist, and editorial board member Colin Levy. News reports say that

hundreds of thousands of user accounts were

deactivated this week after Australia began to enforce a law pass last year that requires big

social sites to take reasonable steps to ensure their users are not under the age of 16.

Let's start with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanyes addressing the press on this law this week.

This is indeed a crowd day to be Australia because make no mistake, this reform will change lives for Australian kids and allowing them to just have their childhood.

For Australian parents enabling them to have greater peace of mind.

But also for the global community who are looking at Australia and saying, well, if Australia can do it, why can't

we? This will make an enormous difference. It is one of the biggest social and cultural changes

that our nation has faced. It's a profound reform which will continue to reverberate around the world in coming

months to assist, not just this generation, but generations to come. Kim, what do you make of this

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