Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: We need the teen social media ban, because the companies won't enforce it

Best of Business · Oct 30, 2025 · 2m · transcript

I've got an update for you on the social media ban for kids situation - over in Australia, the social media companies have now admitted they can kick underage kids off their platforms, and they've admitted that they will start enforcing the ban when the ban in Australia comes into effect on December 10th.

Now, this is not a surprise to me that they can actually do it, because I never believed the nonsense when they said: “Oh, it's impossible to age verify, we couldn't possibly.” Because guess what? They can.

Reddit over in the UK does this - it age verifies and stops people seeing content…