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Speaker 1: Listen, I reckon, we might want to consider doing never mind, No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: not consider I reckon we should I reckon we should

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Speaker 1: do what the Australians are planning to do and ban

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Speaker 1: the kids from using social media until they reach the

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Speaker 1: age of sixteen. At the moment, we don't have a

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Speaker 1: huge amount of detail on what actually is going to

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Speaker 1: happen in Australia, but we've got a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a sketch kind of emerging. And what we know is

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Speaker 1: the Australians are planning to put in the highest age

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Speaker 1: limit in the world at sixteen. And then the other

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Speaker 1: very important thing is they going to put this The

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Speaker 1: onus on social media companies to make this work, not

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Speaker 1: on the parents, not on the kids, not on the government,

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Speaker 1: not on anybody else. It's going to be on the

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Speaker 1: social media companies to keep the kids off. So there

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Speaker 1: will be an age verification tool and it will be

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Speaker 1: an official one, either biometrics or government ID, and the

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Speaker 1: social media companies have to use it and they have

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Speaker 1: to keep kids off if they haven't hit sixteen yet,

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Speaker 1: and if they don't, they get penalized. And this is

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Speaker 1: exactly how it should work, because if these social media

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Speaker 1: companies are not forced to take responsibility. They will not

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Speaker 1: take responsibility. They will simply blame someone else. Ago, it's

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Speaker 1: not actually our job. It's up to the parents. Oh whoops,

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Speaker 1: the kid's got on. Wits up to the kids. Oh whoops,

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Speaker 1: the kids got on. Hits up to the government. Oh whoops,

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Speaker 1: the kids got on. That's basically how they'll roll, because

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Speaker 1: that is how they roll at the moment, because I

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Speaker 1: can tell you with absolute certainty they are not taking responsibility. Now.

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Speaker 1: They know full well that their product is really bad

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Speaker 1: for the developing brain. And they also know that they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to keep the kids off until they're thirteen, and

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Speaker 1: yet whoops, a whole bunch of kids with age under

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Speaker 1: the age of thirteen just happen to have social media accounts. Whoops. Now,

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Speaker 1: I have absolutely zero tolerance for any argument from these

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Speaker 1: companies that they can't do this. Yes they can. They

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Speaker 1: are literally tech geniuses. So if they've got an age

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Speaker 1: verification tool make the tech work. They are extremely wealthy,

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Speaker 1: so if there's some sort of a penalty that involves money,

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Speaker 1: they can pay that fine. And they are also some

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Speaker 1: of the founders and a whole bunch of the employees'

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Speaker 1: parents as well, so they should be caring what is

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Speaker 1: happening to caring about what is happening to other people's kids.

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Speaker 1: And you know what worst case scenario is they do

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Speaker 1: the thing that they always do and they threaten to leave.

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Speaker 1: So what be my guest, bugger off leave the country.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if Facebook or Insta or TikTok or

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Speaker 1: x pulled out of Australia or if we were to

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Speaker 1: do the same thing out of New Zealand tomorrow. I

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Speaker 1: could not give less of a toss. This literally does

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Speaker 1: not make your life any better. The only people who

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Speaker 1: I can see he would actually really really be hit

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Speaker 1: by these guys pulling out are businesses who are impacted

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Speaker 1: because they advertise on and have business accounts on the

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Speaker 1: social media companies. We managed to make it work on

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Speaker 1: the internet beforehand. We will make it work again. We

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Speaker 1: will simply go back to using Google and finding ways

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Speaker 1: to advertise and get ahold of businesses through Google. So

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Speaker 1: the more I see what Australia is doing, the more

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Speaker 1: I want us to do it. And I'm bloody well

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Speaker 1: hope we do. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive

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