I'm not on social media. But reddit seems slightly more intelligent than tiktok, instagram, X. What's the real motive then, according to you?
The Prime Minister's announcement of the policy included, unusually, a callout to one of the major news organisations (Newscorp) for their campaign (called Let Them Be Kids) in favour of such a ban[0]:
> I do want to pay tribute to the campaign that's been run by media organisations on this. I do want to single out NewsCorp for the campaign that they've run, Let Them Be Kids. It's an example of a media organisation being engaged in something that's of concern to the community.
[0]: https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-46363
Having said all of that, the social media ban polled well and I think that the popularity of the policy is the parsimonious explanation for why it was developed.
[0]: https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/labor-finalises-tech-gi...
The motive is because it's easily gamed for propaganda. It's the easiest platform to bot, and thus exploit, for psychological manipulation.
Text is also the cheapest way to influence people - making videos is much more challenging.
And here I just called it more intelligent, lol. I should qualify that. I've seen her instagram feed too, and somehow it's even more absurd...