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Australia bans YouTube accounts for children under 16 in reversal of previous stance
YouTube was listed as an exemption in November last year when the Parliament passed world-first laws that will ban Australian ...
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YouTube roped into Labor’s social media ban for under 16s
Communications Minister Anika Wells has announced YouTube’s inclusion in Labor’s social media ban for under-16s, reversing a prior exemption.
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The streets are saying the government’s going to ban VPNs, so here’s everything we know
People have already found loopholes around the age verification process, including using character creation screens on video games, so people questioned whether Labour would patch the issue by banning ...
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Why is Australia set to ban under-16s from YouTube? Country reverses an earlier decision to exempt streaming platform from social media restrictions
Australia is set to ban children from having an account on YouTube, reversing an earlier decision by the federal government ...
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Australia to ban YouTube accounts for those under 16 years old
Separately, YouTube said it is deploying age-estimation technology in the U.S. to determine if some users are underage.