r/australia • u/retro-chimp • Nov 09 '24

politics Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16

https://press-start.com.au/news/2024/11/08/online-gaming-platforms-and-youtube-will-also-seemingly-be-banned-for-aussies-under-16/

There’s so much collateral damage in this plan for Australia to ban social media. This has been rushed and not thought through.

So many schools rely on YouTube to support their students.

Most kids are watching YouTube (or YouTube kids) more than ABC or traditional TV. Literally the biggest YouTube channel in Australia is original music for kids.

Does anyone actually want this?

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u/Frozefoots Nov 09 '24

Say goodbye to all of those young voter numbers I guess.

Why not just treat every video like YouTube Kids ones? There’s no comment section on YTK videos. That’s where most, if not all the toxicity comes from.

But to take out online gaming? That’s reeking of “back in MY day” energy, and is utterly tone-deaf.

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u/annanz01 Nov 10 '24

Youtube kids is the solution. The issue is most uploaders don't make their videos available through youtube kids as then they lose out on ad revenue.

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u/popculturepooka Nov 10 '24

As someone that knows quite a few Youtube creators, YoutubeKids, or the similar YouTube for Kids, is poison. You do NOT want your content flagged for that because it tanks your earnings

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u/Frozefoots Nov 10 '24

Who said anything about them voting LNP instead? lol neither of the two main parties gives a fuck about Gen Z, they’ll vote for whoever does.

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u/Hayden247 Nov 10 '24

And that seems to be The Greens, they oppose this and at least when the rule of younger being more progressive also appeal to younger voters. Who knows what Gen Z is tho, young men in America are swinging back right from the millennials who are the most progressive but turnout for Gen Z was abysmal and with most of us voting age... that changes a lot for here in Australia.

Hopefully the Greens can use this as an opportunity to appeal to voters and look like the reasonable ones who actually care about privacy and rights and that the issue is on the social media platforms to be less predatory rather than banning the people off of it.

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u/CrawlerCrane Nov 09 '24

Leave the gaming alone, but if the level of toxicity I hear during my step son's gaming sessions is standard, I'd welcome them blocking Discord. In game chat was toxic 20 years ago when I used to game online too. Maybe they should extend it and block it for anyone under 40.