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So Australia has banned kids under 16 from social media.

Parents all over America are looking at this saying,

maybe we should do this here or maybe not.

Lydia Moynihan joins us now. She's a New York Post correspondent. Lydia, dive into this situation because number one story on Fox News today as I'm speaking to you. Like the banner, the headline story is Australia's social media ban because parents are fired up.

Australia has poisonous spiders. They have too many sharks. I think in that regard, it's a difficult

place to live. But when it comes to the social media ban, I think they got this 100% right. And I think

this is actually one government interference, one government rule that's

actually very beneficial for society. Because tech companies are making so much money off

children. They have no incentive to say, oh, you should probably have your children be on their cell phone

and on the internet less. It's interesting. There was a couple years ago, this big documentary that came out. And a lot of people in tech were saying, oh, yeah, with my own kids, I'm not going to let them on social media. I'm not going to give them a phone. But these companies are worth sometimes trillion plus dollars. They're not going to want to rein in kids being on their phones, on the apps. And for parents,

it's really tough because you don't want to be that one parent who feels like every other child

is allowed on social media except for yours. You don't want your child to be developmentally

delayed because of that. And so I think this kind of sets a tone that is ultimately going to be so much

more beneficial from society. I mean, kind of as an adult, I actually wish there was a law that

like I could only spend so much time on my phone. I think that would be good for me. Most of us

don't have the discipline. Kids definitely do not. Their brains aren't even fully developed. So the

idea that the government would get

involved and set the tone. And fair in mind, too, this isn't a draconian law. Like, they're not

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