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Speaker 1: Now the Australian social media ban has started, well sought of.

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Speaker 1: It came in on Monday, officially December one. It actually

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Speaker 1: starts d Day as they're calling it is December ten.

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Speaker 1: So the worrying thing is that one of the big

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Speaker 1: backers of the idea said she believed, she believed, with

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Speaker 1: all her heart, her words, we were saving a generation.

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Speaker 1: Now that simply, of course is not true. I mean

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Speaker 1: saving them from what themselves. Theory versus reality very powerfully

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Speaker 1: at play in this particular move. So we're dealing with

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Speaker 1: too many intangibles here. So between Monday and this time

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Speaker 1: next week when it begins, teens have been busy in

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Speaker 1: Australia finding new apps that aren't covered by the band.

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Speaker 1: Influences are busy as we speak directing traffic to those

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Speaker 1: new outlets in order to work around the rules. Now,

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Speaker 1: the government smart This has been busy this week announcing

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Speaker 1: a new series of apps that will be covered. So

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Speaker 1: we're in a sort of a whack a mole stage

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Speaker 1: at the moment. Now, as far as I can work out,

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure has been placed on the tech

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Speaker 1: companies to make sure kids don't lie. How literally that works.

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Speaker 1: I got no idea. I mean, like alcohol, you'll be

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Speaker 1: asked what age you are. Whether a tech company can

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Speaker 1: be held liable for dishonesty. I suppose in some way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form will end up in court. Face recognition

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Speaker 1: user profiles can be used, I guess, but at some

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Speaker 1: point a market the size of Australia might well end

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Speaker 1: up being more trouble than it's worth. Far better to

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Speaker 1: battle as these tech companies do with places like the

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Speaker 1: EU where privacy and trading laws are constantly under review,

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Speaker 1: and find to hand it out on an almost continual basis.

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Speaker 1: Never forgetting, of course, that these tech companies we're now

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Speaker 1: dealing with businesses worth more than many countries and governments. However,

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Speaker 1: flip side, this could of course be the trojan horse

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Speaker 1: Australia at the forefront of a major global movement that

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Speaker 1: is going to somehow shift the nature of technological interaction

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Speaker 1: of an entire generation. Studies may be launched if you

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Speaker 1: were banned, say pre sixteen, when you get to the

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Speaker 1: golden age of sixteen, you suddenly cause you can get

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Speaker 1: on there and go nuts. See repression, never forget is

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Speaker 1: a problematic trait in a lot of social activity. So

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Speaker 1: we watch I guess with interest. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: will lead to a lot personally. It has a touch

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Speaker 1: of virtue signaling about it all. But theory in Australia

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Speaker 1: is now reality. And I tell you this for nothing

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Speaker 1: A but a lot of parents wish them well. For

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