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Good morning 🌥️ By deactivating over 1 million social media accounts held by under‑16s, enforcing platform age checks and threatening fines up to ~$33 million for breaches, Australia implemented one of the largest impediments to Australian kids—if we have this right—rizzing each other up and aura-farming, and the largest scale social experiment in recent history.

The largely popular law, which detractors claim infringes on free speech and could usher in a springtime for VPNs, ostensibly enshrines touching grass as law and intends to set a bold global precedent for others to follow. The measure of its success will likely be on a “we’ll wait and see” basis.

—Gloria Mbabazi, Shem Opolot

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