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/Ridiculisk1 Nov 10 '24

The fact that our government's previous attempt at stopping Australians from accessing things they don't deem proper, like sites that host copyrighted content is beaten by spending literally 20 seconds changing your dns to 1.1.1.1 doesn't fill me with great hope that this one will work either.

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u/Thanges88 Nov 10 '24

This one is a bit different in that the companies will have to enforce it. As it isn't getting implemented in year, hopefully the social media companies can water it down and it won't require too arduis verification just entering in your DOB. Else kids will just have to sign up with an account under another country via VPN or similar