Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
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| 0:30.0 | Children across Australia, they woke up today with no access to their social media accounts, those 16 and under. |
| 0:47.2 | And it is the first ban in the world of an entire age group that is no longer able to access their social media. |
| 0:48.8 | And Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and former chief of staff for Obama. |
| 1:01.7 | He is now advocating that children in the United States are not allowed to access social media under the age of 16. |
| 1:05.0 | He says we either have to choose adults or algorithms. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, look, there's no, there's very, I can't think of a compelling reason that a child would need to be on Facebook. I can't think of a compelling reason that a child would need to be on Facebook. |
| 1:30.2 | I can't think of a compelling reason. A child would need to be on Twitter. Does anybody, you know, anybody who spends any amount of time on any of those places, I'm guilty of this too. So I'm, I'm indicting myself with this, who walks away from it going, that was a positive experience. great. I'm glad I did that, right? Now, I do it for my job and, you know, et cetera, right? |
| 1:35.6 | We create content on social media and then we use it for the show. But I think it would be much better world if I didn't have to do that and I could get away from it. But I sort of load to, |
| 1:43.3 | however, I will say this. |
| 1:46.1 | While I agree with him, people under the age of 16 have no business being on social media. |
| 1:50.3 | Ultimately, isn't that a job of a parent? |
| 1:52.4 | Right. |
| 1:53.1 | Do we need the government stepping in and creating legislation? |
| 1:57.8 | No, no, no. |
| 1:58.1 | Telling us how to parent. |
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