{"id":21127,"date":"2025-12-07T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/how-australia-became-the-testing-ground-for-a-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:37:23","slug":"how-australia-became-the-testing-ground-for-a-social-media-ban-for-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/how-australia-became-the-testing-ground-for-a-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/","title":{"rendered":"How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it\u2019s been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December<\/p>\n<p>In late 2023, the South Australian premier\u2019s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt\u2019s The Anxious Generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[She] said to me you better bloody do something about this &#8230; and then we got to work,\u201d Peter Malinauskas later recalled in an ABC interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/07\/how-australia-became-the-testing-ground-for-a-social-media-ban-for-young-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6893f3295f8b5d7b680a06db2b7c919a688d5d3f\/434_0_4343_3475\/master\/4343.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0f7ec6640a8df020d995a825afa9df14\" title=\"How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people\" \/>From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it\u2019s been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December<br \/>\nIn late 2023, the South Australian premier\u2019s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt\u2019s The Anxious Generation.<br \/>\n\u201c[She] said to me you better bloody do something about this &#8230; and then we got to work,\u201d Peter Malinauskas later recalled in an ABC interview. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it\u2019s been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December In late 2023, the South Australian premier\u2019s wife put down a book she had been reading. It was Jonathan Haidt\u2019s The Anxious Generation. \u201c[She] said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/07\/how-australia-became-the-testing-ground-for-a-social-media-ban-for-young-people\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}