For years, the debate around teenage social media use has been framed as a question of choice. Young people choose to scroll.They choose to engage.They choose to stay online. Australia’s decision to restrict social media access for under-16s has disrupted that framing — not because it has solved the problem, but because it has revealed something more uncomfortable: How much of what we call “choice” was actually design. What the Ban Didn’t Do — and Why That Matters The ban did