On the very first day of public hearings for the much-vaunted Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compared banning children younger than 16 from social media to banning them from the ocean.
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"The sand is warm under your feet, and you can hear the joyful sounds of children excitedly frolicking in the water."We don't fence the ocean or keep children entirely out of the water … but we do create protected swimming environments.", contains a misconception that "social media is a discrete form of media that can be separated from the rest of the internet".
The Commissioner also makes the point that even if the ban did work as intended, keeping kids off social media until their 16th birthday will not prepare them for the online world. "Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality,"The first part of the sentence, that some creative jobs will "go away", whilst brutal, is not exactly breaking news.
Whichever creative jobs Mira Murati was referring to when she said some should never have existed, I'm positive she didn't mean this.'Nobody says, let's show an R-rated movie to a 10-year-old': Coalition's push to stop social media for under 16-year-olds
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