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Speaker 1: So tomorrow's the big day, isn't it. And it is

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Speaker 1: I think not an overstatement to say that the eyes

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Speaker 1: of the world, well at least politicians around the world,

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Speaker 1: are going to be on Australia and whether the social

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Speaker 1: media ban will actually work, and that is still a

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Speaker 1: live question, isn't it. We're less than twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: from the thing taking effect, and none of us can

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Speaker 1: totally say for sure that we know it's going to work.

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Speaker 1: For two reasons. One, it's the Internet, so there's always

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Speaker 1: a work around out there, and to involved kids and

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Speaker 1: if there's a work around, kids will find the work around.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to call it for you now, it's not

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Speaker 1: going to work if your definition of working is that

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of children under sixteen get kicked off

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Speaker 1: and stay off until they're sixteen. But I think it

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Speaker 1: is possible that it is going to work if your

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Speaker 1: definition is a little bit more flexible, which is that

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Speaker 1: most kids get kicked off and stay off because their

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Speaker 1: parents force them to do it. And I think that

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Speaker 1: is the key thing here, like it always is parents

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Speaker 1: getting involved talking about whether it works or not. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I think kind of misses the point here, which is

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Speaker 1: that This gives parents something that they haven't had yet,

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Speaker 1: which is permission to keep their kids off social media,

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Speaker 1: because what parents have been finding is it's very hard

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Speaker 1: to keep fourteen year old Susie off social media. Off

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Speaker 1: the facy, off the Insta of TikTok, off the snapchat,

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Speaker 1: because all Susie's friends are on it, and if Susie's

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Speaker 1: not on it, then she becomes the weird kid. And

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Speaker 1: nobody wants their kid to be the weird kid, right,

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Speaker 1: So you're relenting. You let Susie on it. This has

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Speaker 1: the potential to flip all of that pressure around. Now

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Speaker 1: everyone's off. Now the kid that's on it, Little Johnny's

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Speaker 1: on it, Susie comes home's old Johnny's on TikTok? Can

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Speaker 1: I go on TikTok? You go? No, Johnny's a naughty

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Speaker 1: kid from a family that has no rules, no boundaries,

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Speaker 1: no discipline. Susie, You've got boundaries and discipline your parents

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Speaker 1: care about. You know, you stay off. It gives permission

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Speaker 1: for the parents to be able to do that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. And if you're a parent, you know peer

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Speaker 1: pressure is massive, isn't it, especially in the teenage years.

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Speaker 1: The Aussie government's doing its bit by bringing us to

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Speaker 1: this point. The tech companies are being dragged into doing

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Speaker 1: their bit, and ultimately this will live or die in

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Speaker 1: Australia based on whether Australian parents do their bit and

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Speaker 1: actually step up to the plate and parent properly. Here

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