After stripping its citizens of the right to self-defense, locking down millions under COVID-19 totalitarianism and treating freedom of speech like a roadblock to socialist utopia, Australia has decided to take its already well-established love of government overreach and crank it up another notch. Starting this week, the Australian government will enforce a total ban on social media for everyone under the age of 16, with platforms that fail to comply facing tens of millions of dollars in fines.

Predictably, the pundit class and advocacy groups applauded the government with the usual Simpson-esque cries of “won’t somebody please think of the children?!” But here’s the truth: If you actually think of the children, this policy is a terrible idea. Not because social media is harmless — far f

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