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Australia's Social Media Ban Gets Its Day in Court Before Its Users Get a Say
· New York time
Australia's High Court has begun a major test of the country's social media ban, with lawyers for Reddit and a digital rights group arguing that the policy deprives children of a right to free communication. The case puts a closely watched approach to regulating major platforms before the courts. Its significance extends beyond Australia because governments elsewhere are also confronting questions about young users, online services and the limits of platform regulation. The legal challenge does not settle those questions in advance; it puts the policy's communication implications in dispute. Governments have learned to describe platform rules in the language of protection, while challengers are asking what access and expression the same rules restrict. The court must now consider a policy designed for a digital world that rarely pauses long enough to read the terms.
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