Australia banned social media for kids under 16. Ten million teenagers lost their phones in a day. The suicide hotline got busier and the birth rate didn't.
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Australia banned social media for kids, and American parents said "that's extreme." Then they handed their 8-year-old an iPad at dinner to stop the screaming. The ban is coming. It's just coming from the kid.
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Australia banned social media for kids and got the NFL on Netflix at 8 a.m. The teenagers can't see TikTok, but they can watch grown men get concussed before school. That's cultural exchange.
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Under-16s can't use TikTok in Australia now. So the kids are back to learning bad ideas the old way: from other kids.
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Norway's wealth fund is pulling $80 billion out of U.S. Treasuries. A country of five million that runs on fish and oil just told a country of 340 million it doesn't trust the paperwork. The paperwork is the dollar.
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A regular-season NFL game in Australia at 8 a.m. their time. Fans in Melbourne will watch football before work. Fans in Detroit will watch it at 4 a.m. and call in sick, which is a Michigan tradition older than the Lions' last title.
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