Hi, I'm Jennifer Huddleston, a senior fellow in technology policy here at the Cato Institute.

And I'm David and Sarah, a fellow for free expression in technology here at the Cato Institute.

And welcome to the Cato podcast. Well, it's been making headlines literally around the world.

Australia has banned everyone under the age of 16 from social media.

This certainly has gotten a lot of attention, not only in the free expression and tech policy communities,

but I think from people across the world, both adults who are wondering what this might mean for them,

concerned parents and policymakers, as well as young

people, both those who maybe are concerned about content they've been exposed to online, as well as

those who are worried about losing favorite communities, favorite venues, or just having a good

old-fashioned fun and connecting with their friends via the way these apps are able to keep us all connected.

So, David, you're a parent of two children.

I'm a former teacher.

We've seen this really emerging around the world over the last couple of years.

How did we kind of get to this debate around kids online?

And what happened that led to this particular

law going so far as to ban social media? Yeah. So, you know, we've seen, I think, growing

attempts to say that there's either harmful content online, usually talking about other content that

is sexual, violent, to graphic, various, various types of content online, usually talking about other content that is sexual, violent, too graphic,

various, various types of content that different groups of people disagree about.

Some people on one side might say that this kind of content is harmful.

People on another side of an issue will say different kind of content is harmful.

So we, but there's this been sort of angst growing about what is harmful content online?

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