Apparently Neighbours will end again this week. But Star Wars has ended definitively three times, yet we all know that there will be more. And it turns out that Home and Away is still going strong in this and more than 140 other countries. Its characters will henceforth be ridiculous to its viewers, although the actors will be obliged to pretend to have no idea. Or will the central theme be the subversion of the ban on social media, which Anthony Albanese has defended to those affected on YouTube, even though they can no longer legally watch it?
Banning under-16s from YouTube looks like banning them from all popular music that did not enjoy radio airplay at the given time. In its way, and in fact the two are connected, that is as pernicious as banning them from all ideology other than that purveyed by the schools and by the official media. It is no wonder that this experiment is being watched so sympathetically by a British Government that kept people in school until they were 18 while planning to make 16 the voting age.
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