December 10, 2025 • 3 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Children across Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
They woke up today with no access to their social
media accounts those sixteen in under and it is the
first ban in the world of an entire age group
that is no longer able to access their social media
and Ram Emmanuel, former Chicago mayor and former chief of
(00:23):
staff for Obama. He is now advocating that children in
the United States are not allowed to access social media
under the age of sixteen. He says, we either have
to choose adults or algorithms.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, look, there's no there is very I can't think
of a compelling reason that a child would need to
be on Facebook. I can't think of a compelling reason
a child would need to be on Twitter. Does anybody
you know anybody who spends any amount of time on
any of those places. I'm guilty of this too, So
I'm indicting myself with this. Who walks away from it going.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That was a positive experience? You great, glad?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I did that right now. I do it for my job,
and you know, et cetera. We create content on social
media and then we use it for the show. But
I think it would be much better world if I
didn't have to do that. I could get away from it,
but I sort of load to However, I will say this, well,
(01:16):
I agree with him. People under the age of sixteen
have no business being on social media. Ultimately, isn't that
a job of a parent? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do we need the government stepping in and creating legislation
no telling us how to parent?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, no, no, of course not. And again it comes
back to we have a real problem in this country
deciding what the age of an adult is. It's sixteen
for this, and it's eighteen for this, and it's twenty
one for this. That doesn't compute. Whatever your adult age
is is when you should be able to do all
of the adult things. And we need to say this
(01:54):
for years. We need to rectify that age of consent smoke, drink, vote,
drive a car, whatever we decide as a collective, all
of those things are. I'm largely okay with I think
we've probably come down in the number being eighteen. But
I got a real problem with people that they can't
(02:15):
choose to smoke a cigarette now in this country thanks
to the Duke of Spendingberg Todd Young, but they can
go to a foreign country and be sentenced to a horrible,
horrible death, and you can be sentenced to a horrible,
horrible death at the age of eighteen, But you you
can't drink a beer, right, Yeah, But then we say
at sixteen, you can't drink a beer till you're twenty one.
(02:36):
But at sixteen you can operate a multi ton heavy
piece of machinery that can harm not only yourself but
everybody around you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
See how that just does.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
None of that ever is computed for me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So earlier this year, back in January, you had senators
like Chris Murphy and Katie Britt and Ted Cruz. They
introduced a bill that would ban social media accounts for
children under thirty. So again, there's another there's another age
that's being thrown out.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What is the compelling reason that you would say my
kid needs to be on Facebook?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like, what can you think of one?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Now I'm not trying to be facetious. I'm asking this,
is there something I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, I don't think there's anything you missing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This This would apply to Instagram, Facebook, thread, snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, kick, reddit.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Twitch x, all of them. Yeah, exactly, there's a huge list.
Snitch the one thing that I could see happening I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's almost like when you have a child born, do
you have to go and grab all their social media
accounts and keep it with an email so that when
they are older they've got it to match their name.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
No, you just never let them on. It's their problem
to become an adult.
Children across Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
They woke up today with no access to their social
media accounts those sixteen in under and it is the
first ban in the world of an entire age group
that is no longer able to access their social media
and Ram Emmanuel, former Chicago mayor and former chief of
(00:23):
staff for Obama. He is now advocating that children in
the United States are not allowed to access social media
under the age of sixteen. He says, we either have
to choose adults or algorithms.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, look, there's no there is very I can't think
of a compelling reason that a child would need to
be on Facebook. I can't think of a compelling reason
a child would need to be on Twitter. Does anybody
you know anybody who spends any amount of time on
any of those places. I'm guilty of this too, So
I'm indicting myself with this. Who walks away from it going.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
That was a positive experience? You great, glad?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I did that right now. I do it for my job,
and you know, et cetera. We create content on social
media and then we use it for the show. But
I think it would be much better world if I
didn't have to do that. I could get away from it,
but I sort of load to However, I will say this, well,
(01:16):
I agree with him. People under the age of sixteen
have no business being on social media. Ultimately, isn't that
a job of a parent? Right?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Do we need the government stepping in and creating legislation
no telling us how to parent?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, no, no, of course not. And again it comes
back to we have a real problem in this country
deciding what the age of an adult is. It's sixteen
for this, and it's eighteen for this, and it's twenty
one for this. That doesn't compute. Whatever your adult age
is is when you should be able to do all
of the adult things. And we need to say this
(01:54):
for years. We need to rectify that age of consent smoke, drink, vote,
drive a car, whatever we decide as a collective, all
of those things are. I'm largely okay with I think
we've probably come down in the number being eighteen. But
I got a real problem with people that they can't
(02:15):
choose to smoke a cigarette now in this country thanks
to the Duke of Spendingberg Todd Young, but they can
go to a foreign country and be sentenced to a horrible,
horrible death, and you can be sentenced to a horrible,
horrible death at the age of eighteen, But you you
can't drink a beer, right, Yeah, But then we say
at sixteen, you can't drink a beer till you're twenty one.
(02:36):
But at sixteen you can operate a multi ton heavy
piece of machinery that can harm not only yourself but
everybody around you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
See how that just does.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
None of that ever is computed for me.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So earlier this year, back in January, you had senators
like Chris Murphy and Katie Britt and Ted Cruz. They
introduced a bill that would ban social media accounts for
children under thirty. So again, there's another there's another age
that's being thrown out.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
What is the compelling reason that you would say my
kid needs to be on Facebook?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Like, what can you think of one?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Now I'm not trying to be facetious. I'm asking this,
is there something I'm missing?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
No, I don't think there's anything you missing.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This This would apply to Instagram, Facebook, thread, snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, kick, reddit.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Twitch x, all of them. Yeah, exactly, there's a huge list.
Snitch the one thing that I could see happening I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I have no idea what you just said.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
It's almost like when you have a child born, do
you have to go and grab all their social media
accounts and keep it with an email so that when
they are older they've got it to match their name.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
No, you just never let them on. It's their problem
to become an adult.
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