“We want our kids to have a childhood and parents to know we have their backs. Social media is doing social harm to our kids. We’ve called time on it,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared in November as he teed up one of the largest-scale social experiments for some time. Before the end of this year, Albanese’s government intends to impose age restrictions on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook, while also placing the onus on them to prevent underage Australians from accessing their services. The ban has made Australia a true outlier. Its aggressive regulatory approach…

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