The ban won’t go into effect for another year, but questions about enforcement and unintended consequences loom large. It is an ambitious social experiment of our moment in history—one that experts say could accomplish something that parents, schools, and other governments have attempted with varying degrees of success: keeping kids off social media until they turn 16.Australia’s new law, approved by its Parliament last week, is an attempt to swim against many tides of modern...

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