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I have a new co-authored article out in Continuum, with Rob Cover, Ingrid Richardson and Daniel X Harris. We examine Australia’s social media age ban and ask why it gained such strong adult support, despite limited evidence that blanket bans reduce harm. Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Surveying 2,500+ Australians, we found 2/3 support the ban—including many who say online free speech is “very important”. We argue this reflects moral panic and a tendency to treat young people as passive recipients of content rather than active producers of culture, care and political engagement.