Australia Pulls the Plug: The Kids’ Social Media Ban America Wishes It Had

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured Australia just took a sledgehammer to Big Tech, moving to deactivate more than a million under-16 social media accounts—and honestly, it’s hard to argue with the logic. From skyrocketing ADHD diagnoses to nonstop AI-generated brain rot, the research is catching up to what common sense told us years ago: social media is melting young minds. This commentary revisits early warnings, cultural red flags, and the Ghostbusters 2 “negative slime” prediction that turned out to be dead-on. Then we ask the big question: Would the world be better if every social platform vanished tomorrow?