Locked Out

I see that the government in Australia has decided to ban children under the age of 16 from most social media platforms. Hard to argue that unlimited scrolling can scramble a young brain, but enforcing a full ban might prove tricky.

Thinking about all this brought back a memory from years ago, when my buddy Bill’s teenage daughter managed to lock him out of the Weather Channel with a “parental” control she’d set on their television. It took him a while to catch on, but once he did, let’s just say he applied a bit of barometric pressure to quickly negotiate his way back to his channel.

—Mitchell Hegman