Australia’s disproportionate response to online harms
Banning the under-16s from many social media spaces may look like the answer, but it curtails free expression and threatens privacy. There must be a better way
Australia’s disproportionate response to online harms
Banning the under-16s from many social media spaces may look like the answer, but it curtails free expression and threatens privacy. There must be a better way
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Volume 54, issue 4: Winter 2025
Gen Z is revolting: Why the world's youth will not be silenced
Zoomers – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – took to the streets last summer. They didn't have a common ideology but they were angry about the state of world and felt hopeless for the future.
They are digital natives to their fingertips, theoretically able to exercise freedom – at least online – on a scale previous generations could only dream of. And yet many are afraid to say what they really think in public forums.