Mike's Minute: The social media ban will not happen

The social media ban is like the pay equity debate.

It's not hard to drum up a lot of emotion and it's not hard to find people who would argue passionately for it.

So in this sense, perhaps unlike the pay equity debate, the Government is on the right side of this.

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Here's a solution to handling kids and social media

About this debate in Australia on banning social media for kids - I have just come across an article that makes the best comparison yet for how we should deal with this issue.

Treat it like sex.

This article is by an academic in Australia and she argues that the best way to protect kids from social media is by teaching them its dangers, like we do with sex.

Joanne Orlando: Young people need education, not unrealistic bans

The federal government has committed to a national plan to ban children from social media.

Details are still scarce. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has acknowledged that “no government is going to be able to protect every child from every threat, but we have to do all we can”.