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The opposite. The Online Safety Act and the coming under 16 social media ban regulate the platforms. They force apps to age-check and strip out the worst content. They do not teach your child anything, and they do not teach you. A ban can keep a 12 year old off an app, it cannot teach them to spot an AI fake, a scam or group chat pressure, and those same apps are waiting for them at 16. We build the judgement the law cannot. Our full explainer walks through what the rules do, the timeline and the skills children still need.