The Independent Op-Ed: Australia’s social media ban won’t protect kids – it’ll put them more at risk

Australia recently enacted legislation to ban children under 16 from using social media – a policy that the Australian government plans to enforce through the use of untested age-verification technology.

While there is little doubt that the elected officials hope to protect children with the aforementioned act, the reality is that – as Australia has already learned in a previous case described in the article – the new law is more likely to make children less safe than more safe. As the United Kingdom is currently in the process of implementing a law that would mandate online-age-verification on a website by website basis – which is also (for many reasons) a bad idea – I wrote a series of op-ed pieces about the topic.

One of my recent pieces appeared in the right-leaving Conservative Home, another appeared in the centrist Byline Times. and, earlier today, the left-leaning, The Independent, published another one of of my op-eds on the topic.

To read the piece that appeared today in The Independent, please see:

Australia’s social media ban won’t protect kids – it’ll put them more at risk

on The Independent‘s web site.