Should Australia Ban Teens From Social Media?
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Cam Wilson on the controversial plan.

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On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, host Paris Marx is joined by Cam Wilson to discuss Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from social media, the interests driving it, and whether it’s the right approach to tackle the harms of those platforms. Cam Wilson is associate editor at Crikey.
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PARIS, FRANCE – NOVEMBER 07: In this photo illustration, the social medias applications logos, Twitter, Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, Tik Tok, Snapchat, Gmail, Facebook and Google are displayed on the screen of an Apple iPhone on November 07, 2018 in Paris, France. Tik Tok, also called Douyin is a Chinese mobile application for video sharing and […]
(Chesnot / Getty Images)On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Cam Wilson, associate editor at Crikey, to discuss Australia’s plan to ban under-16s from social media, the interests driving it, and whether it’s the right approach to tackle the harms of those platforms.

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Paris Marx is joined by Dara Kerr to discuss how Elon’s decision to prioritize aesthetics over safety has created a safety crisis, causing people to burn alive in their Cybertrucks and other Tesla vehicles.
Dara Kerr is a technology reporter at Guardian US.
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