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While this specific policy targets secondary school screen time, it reflects a wider trend of governments asserting control over digital environments. For crypto, this is a low-signal noise event, but it reinforces the narrative that regulatory scrutiny is expanding beyond finance into everyday tech use, potentially impacting user adoption curves for decentralized applications.

Victorian government announced a national-first plan to limit secondary school students' classroom device use to two hours per day, requiring device-free learning time from Term 1 2027.

Victoria to limit secondary school screen time to two hours daily from Term 1 2027

Victoria’s school screen-time cap will create a generation of offline-first crypto users—driving demand for hardware wallets and decentralized offline transactions