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Major test for Australia's social media ban begins in High Court

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Lawyers for Reddit and a digital rights group are arguing the world-leading policy robs children of their right to free communication.

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Both outlets frame the story as the first major High Court test of Australia’s under-16s social media ban. The Guardian US is the only one to identify the challengers as Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project, and to mention the implied freedom of political communication argument, while the BBC keeps the challenge generic and foregrounds a rights-based claim about free communication.

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