Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
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Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
From Outrage To Empathy: How Politics Tests A Relationship And What It Taught Me;
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From Outrage To Empathy: How Politics Tests A Relationship And What It Taught Me;
Send us a text The outrage machine wants you angry and certain. I wanted peace—especially at home. After a long winter of doomscrolling U.S. politics from Australia, I realized my left-leaning convictions were colliding with my partner’s right-leaning worldview, and our love was absorbing the shock. So we slowed down. We stripped our arguments to claims and evidence, named the fears hidden under the rhetoric, and practiced conceding fair points without surrendering our values. You’ll hear th...
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Send us a text Social media can feel like a gladiator arena for adults, let alone kids. We take a clear-eyed look at Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act and why it puts the responsibility on platforms to prevent under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. No criminal penalties for parents, no blanket government ID checks—just “reasonable steps” that force companies to build safer systems, document their methods, and accept penalties when they fail. We walk through how age assurance act...
