Australia just became the first country to ban anyone under 16 from social media and call it “protection” 🚨 What it really is?  A global green light for surveillance disguised as child safety. The passage of the bill marks a dark, repressive shift in digital rights across the world. Southeast Asia, WATCH OUT: the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore are next (and we’re monitoring closely). ‼️ Manushya Foundation’s stance on banning young people from digital spaces is

𝗟𝗲𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 #𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 in our digital world 🚨 Last month at EngageMedia’s #DRAPAC2025, our Founder & CEO Emilie Palamy Pradichit delivered a clear warning: 𝘀𝗼-𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗴𝗲-𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹. Speaking from the Thai context, Emilie Palamy showed how these measures risk becoming tools of 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲�

“It is baffling to watch how states that position themselves as guardians of childhood online are the same states that jail minors, lock migrant children in cages and kill teenagers in the name of so-called law and order.” - Dr Jean Linis-Dinco, Digital Rights Advisor, Manushya Foundation ✊ Five days before our engagement at DRAPAC, we at Manushya Foundation  would like to set things straight. We reject the premise that treats the passage of age gating laws as an attestation