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Australia's social media ban for under 16s faces a legal challenge. An NSW MP argues the ban will push kids to unsupervised online spaces. Parental monitoring remains crucial. #SocialMediaBan #OnlineSafety #ParentalControl #DigitalPrivacy
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It's less than two weeks until the
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Albanesei Labor government's new social
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media ban for children under 16 comes
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into force. December 10 is DDay for
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Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok,
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and some other apps as well. But one New
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South Wales MP has put a spanner in the
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works. He joins me now. John, good to
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talk to you again. Um, firstly, why do
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you oppose the social media ban?
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Okay. Well, there's two principal
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reasons, Chris. The first is that even
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if Mr. Albanzi has the best of
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intentions here, which is to protect
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children online. Everybody agrees with
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that. Uh, but what's going to happen is
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the kids are very techsavvy. They are
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going to get around this so-called ban.
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It's been going around every playground
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in Australia for the last 3 months about
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how to get around the ban. So, they're
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going to get around the ban, but the
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parents are then going to think, well, I
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don't need to worry about it anymore.
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Social uh social media used to be bad
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for my kids. I I used to need to monitor
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them, but now I don't because Mr.
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Albanese is going to do So, they're
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going to go to the underground internet,
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which is only going to be it's only
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going to be a lot worse without parental
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supervision.
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Um, tell us about the grounds for the
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challenge and whether it's expensive,
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whether you've got the money to
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deliver this legal outcome and how long
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it'll take.
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Well, we are hoping that there will be
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an injunction uh next week. We're
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certainly going to be having a hearing,
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a preliminary hearing, and that if we
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get the injunction, then that means that
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the law will not come into effect on the
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10th of December. Then we expect the the
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court the the the the full the full uh
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bench of the high court to make a
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decision probably March, April next
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year. But that is in the lapse of the
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justices. We do not want the government
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saying well you're not allowed to access
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that information and you must access
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this information at the school. So we
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want a diversity of opinion. But I do
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really want to stress, Chris, being a
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parent in and in in this time uh
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monitoring your kids' online social
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media presence and activity is a
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paramount responsibility.
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Absolutely.
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And and the parents if they they if they
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take their foot off off the off the
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brake and they think I don't need to
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worry about it because the bureaucrat's
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looking after it to me,
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that's a recipe for disaster. Worse
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things will happen.
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