President Ford once “told” New York City to “Drop Dead.” Aussie youth are presently telling Parliament “You Don’t Matter.” Think the Social Media Minimum Age Act. Implemented in 2025 to establish a national age limit of 16 for social media including Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, the New York Times recently reported that “the law seems to […]
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“The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world, before passing it on to us.” That was John F. Carter, in the Atlantic Monthly. It was September 1920, and Carter was channeling what he thought to be a post-WWI rage within young Americans over their inheritance of “this thing, knocked to pieces, leaky, red-hot,
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Australia’s young people are way too smart for Australia’s politicians. See the recent implementation of Australia’s “Social Media Minimum Age Act.” The Aussie law is meant to protect youths from the alleged harms of social media. The law’s conceit won’t age well. Easily missed by Australia’s political class is that the innocuous sounding legislation
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