The Australian government announced that YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16 years old from December, reversing a position taken months ago on the popular video-sharing service. YouTube was ...

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government said Wednesday the site, which is owned by Google’s parent ...

Australia has banned children under 16 from major social media platforms. This law aims to protect young users from online harms and mental health iss

With YouTube now part of Australia's social media ban for kids, Google says that will only make things worse. Who is right?

YouTube will auto-sign out all Australian users under 16 starting December 10 to comply with the new Social Media Minimum Age Act. Teenagers lose all account features: subscriptions, commenting, uploading, and parental controls. Google warns the ban will make teens less safe, while the Australian government says that's YouTube's problem to solve.

Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner on September 25, 2023 Editor at Large In the early 1970s, Julie Inman Grant’s mother, Glenda, worked for the City of Seattle. One of her colleagues there was Ted Bundy, who worked for the Crime ...

Australia has reversed a decision that omitted YouTube from its ban on social media platforms for teenagers. A youth social media law will come into effect starting in December. "Young people under the age of 16 will not be able to have accounts on YouTube ...

YouTube's subscription service, YouTube Red, along with the company's specialised music app, launched in Australia on Wednesday, but the specifics of the deal it offers artists are still unclear. Australia, the service's first market outside the U.S. since ...

But experts branded the messages as “misinformation” and a “desperate attempt” to rally support for the company, as YouTube is not mentioned in the proposed laws and would not be subject to revenue-sharing changes in the proposal from Australia’s ...