In December 2025, Australia put into effect a complete ban on anyone under the age of 16 from creating social media profiles. This even includes sites like YouTube. Numerous countries are considering passing similar legislation, including the United States.

Fascist nations like Australia are jeopardizing our children’s rights to rot their brains. 

Think about how much media will never be made due to kids not being allowed to be on the internet. It’s basically the burning of the Library of Alexandria, except this time it affects me, so it actually matters. Now my content farm will never take off!

When I’m in class and don’t feel like doing work, I’m comforted by the endless number of videos created by children all over the world. I love watching the infinite amount of content of political figures engaging in gacha singing battles and Minecraft recreation videos inaccurately portraying sensitive historical events.

How else will I fill this hole in my heart? 

The conversation on children’s place in online spaces is missing the crucial topic of how funny it is to see kids’ digital footprints. Sure, it may ruin their chances of getting into college, but most of them won’t be able to afford it anyway. 

Also kids need a certain amount of trauma to build character. Now that most people live to adulthood and kids aren’t working in factories, they need something else to destroy their innocence. Kids need to stumble upon a couple of gore videos. It builds character! Without that essential trauma, they’ll become well-functioning adults, and that’s just bad for the economy.

I myself was exposed to the internet at an early age. Watching drone strike footage as a ten-year-old is a core memory for me. As an American, I have every right to develop war PTSD from the safety of my own home. And Australia has no right to take that away from me, or other impressionable youth.

Sometimes the government needs to allow millions of children to be traumatized and brain-rotted by the internet in the name of providing me entertainment. Sacrifices need to be made in order to preserve what matters most.

Benjamin Franklin once said, 

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

When Benjamin said this, he had incredible foresight. If we give up children’s freedom to be on the internet in the name of safety, that’s basically letting the British win all over again. Here in America, we have this thing called freedom, and that means letting toddlers watch whatever horrors or slop the internet has to offer.