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> How will Australia's under-16 social media ban work?

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!

It won't.

There are a couple of ways I see it going.

1) Let's just say there are 300 days left before the ban takes effect. Option 1 is that in 298 days, after every tech person in the world telling them how stupid and ineffective the idea is, and when the dumb populace realises "wait now everybody is going to have to verify their id to use social media?", the law gets repealed. This will happen quietly and without any media circus, because Australia has no independent media, OR:

2) The ban goes into effect. On the same day, teens abandon social media en-masse. Nobody knows where they've gone. Weirdly, these events correlate with a spike in VPN subscriptions encrypted traffic to decentralised services.

I'm hoping for the second one - a more security aware next-generation would be a good thing.