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The founder of an Australian news channel staffed exclusively by teenage journalists has responded to new laws which will ban children under the age of 16 from social media. Leo Puglisi, 17, has run the online news service 6 News since beginning his media career at age 11. In five years the site had grown to now broadcast hourly bulletins and boasts almost 30,000 subscribers on YouTube, alongside hundreds of thousands of followers across other social media platforms.
Responding to the legislation passing parliament on Friday, Mr Puglisi said the ban 'seriously risks restricting creativity from our young people'. 'As Australia's only national streaming news channel run almost entirely by teenagers in high school, 6 News has been asked many times about what the government's under-16s social media ban means for us,' he said. 'Let's be clear: 6 News is not going away.
' The Melbourne-based news boss said his online site had been built up by the very age group the laws would seek to ban when implemented at the end of...
Liam Beatty.
