Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corbett Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato of Mediamonarchy.com, a readjustment of our global military presence to address

urgent threats in our hemisphere. We have got that story. Plus, streaming wars killed the theater star.

But first, big story out of Australia. Millions of children and teens lose access to what I'm calling

their digital would be, but it's the under 16 social media

ban, grabbing this from The Guardian. Australia has enacted a world first ban on social media for users

aged under 16, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts. Facebook,

Instagram, threads, YouTube, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kik, Twitch, and TikTok, not Kik, are expected to have taken steps Wednesday to remove accounts held by users under 16 in Australia and prevent those teens from registering new accounts.

There have been some teething problems with the band's implementation.

Guardian Australia received several reports of those

under 16 passing the facial age assurance tests, but the government S flagged it as not expecting

the ban would be perfect from day one, all listed platforms apart from the greatest one.

The artist formerly known as Twitter confirmed they would comply with the ban.

E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said it had recently had a conversation with X about how it would comply,

but the company had not communicated that policy to, you know, the users.

Blue Sky, the big Democrat X alternative, announced it would also ban under 16s despite e-safety assessing

the platform as low risk due to not many people are on that thing.

Children had spent the past few weeks undertaking age assurance checks, swapping phone numbers,

and preparing for their accounts to be activated. Don't forget me over summer.

Parents of the children affected by the band

shared a spectrum of views on the policy.

That's not the only spectrum these kids and parents are on.

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