{"id":193122,"date":"2025-12-10T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-social-media-ban-for-kids-australias-world-first-experiment-podcast-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:34:14","slug":"the-social-media-ban-for-kids-australias-world-first-experiment-podcast-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-social-media-ban-for-kids-australias-world-first-experiment-podcast-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The social media ban for kids: Australia\u2019s world-first experiment \u2013 podcast &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Focus talks to three teenagers, and technology reporter Josh Taylor, about Australia\u2019s world-first legislation: a social media ban for under-16s<br \/>Millions of Australian under-16s will be cut off from social media on Wednesday.<br \/>As our technology reporter <strong>Josh Taylor<\/strong> explains, it comes after months of campaigning across the country, and on a swell of popular support, with parents and politicians worried about the harmful impact of social media on children.<br \/>But one group are not so keen. Australian teenagers themselves feel their voices have been completely ignored.<br \/>Today in Focus hears from Sarai Ades,14; Ezra Sholl, 15; and Ewan Constable, 15, about how they use social media, what it means to them \u2026 and whether they\u2019ll find a way around the ban regardless.<br \/>And <strong>Annie Kelly <\/strong>asks is the ban workable? If it works, will countries around the world follow suit?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxQUWE0aUJIWXl0Vk1oaENMM3I2UzRtd29JMlVOQmFUQXZyd21YeXJNUWR1TU1VSmVtVVdHcnpDNVhPWVg3SGZXWTN5cWp0ZXVUY0lHc2Q5M0N0V1NIRW9zYVBhYnRCWm90SEVHTThVUmdBcmJEMUNPZFRCMXhqU0lRWEVva2xRWTNyc1gzVVpNMVExOW5GZXNhYjFCaGR2aEVIOTdvWkpuckdxVENLYXpJbGFPaHBnNDlwNU55ZGYyMA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in Focus talks to three teenagers, and technology reporter Josh Taylor, about Australia\u2019s world-first legislation: a social media ban for under-16sMillions of Australian under-16s will be cut off from social media on Wednesday.As our technology reporter Josh Taylor explains, it comes after months of campaigning across the country, and on a swell of popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}