Wednesday, December 4, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 - 11:27)
Australia Bans Social Media for Children Under 16 – Why are Some Pushing Back Against the Legislation?
Part II (11:27 - 16:13)
The Problem of Social Media for Teens is the Smoke, Not the Fire: The Real Problem is That Parents Aren’t Parenting
Part III (16:13 - 18:20)
Parents in a Universe of Experts: The Technological Imperative is Part of the Challenge
Part IV (18:20 - 25:56)
The Real Agenda: Yet Another Cry of “Book Banning” Revealed for What It Really Is
- Books About Everyone, for Everyone by The New York Times (The Editorial Board)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 4, 2024. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | Well, we need to look at social media again, given the big news coming out of Australia that the government there has passed, |
| 0:20.7 | what is considered to be |
| 0:21.7 | a pretty simple to understand ban on social media accounts for Australians under age 16. |
| 0:28.2 | Now, consider the fact that we're just talking about under age 16. |
| 0:31.9 | So even between, say, 16 and 18, you're looking at the fact that these are young people, |
| 0:37.2 | presumably in the home. |
| 0:38.5 | They are teenagers. And even when you look at 16 and under, we're looking at a long way under |
| 0:45.0 | when you consider this. And so this isn't really radical legislation, but it's being treated as |
| 0:50.6 | radical legislation. And one of the places where it's being treated that way is in Australia |
| 0:54.8 | where the government has adopted this legislation. So just consider the fact that we're talking about |
| 0:59.9 | social media. Consider that if we were talking about, say, raising children 30 years ago, |
| 1:05.8 | no one would think to add social media to the agenda for conversation. It simply wasn't a thing. Now it's not only a thing |
| 1:12.7 | in the language of social media. It is an extremely big thing. The band's an interesting story in and of |
| 1:19.6 | itself. And I'm going to argue that the most radical thing about it is that it isn't very radical, |
| 1:24.2 | but it's being treated as if it's very radical. That in one sense is the most |
| 1:28.3 | interesting aspect of this legislation. You have people for it and against it who are over-claiming |
| 1:34.0 | what it is all about and the difference the law is likely to make. On behalf of the legislation, |
| 1:39.0 | you have the Australian government saying that it has acted upon the very real and credible evidence of the damage that |
| 1:45.8 | social media exposure is doing in the lives of adolescents and children. And so this ban, |
| 1:52.8 | at least according to the Australian government, a ban in which the platforms can be found liable |
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