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Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University

Reddit says it’s not a social media platform. Australia’s High Court is unlikely to agree

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Reddit is asking Australia’s High Court to rule that it’s not a social media platform and therefore should not have to comply with the under-16s social media account ban.

The US-based web forum’s High Court case raises two issues. First, it raises the same constitutional implied freedom of political communication issue raised in a case commenced last month by two 15-year-olds, which the High Court will hear in February.

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