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Australia's social-media crackdown is the new tobacco playbook — and the platforms know it
Canberra is doubling penalties for platforms skirting its under-16 ban, borrowing a regulatory logic that once broke Big Tobacco. Whether the comparison survives contact with the internet is the open question.
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