Reddit calls Australia’s under-16 social media ban ‘inept’ in court

Reddit has asked Australia’s High Court to strike down the country’s world-first ban on under-16s holding social media accounts, arguing that the law is unconstitutional. The first legal challenge to the legislation opened in Canberra this week, Reuters reported.

Reddit and a libertarian advocacy group say the ban violates an implied constitutional freedom of political communication.

Their lawyer, Perry Herzfeld, described the legislation…