{"id":97048,"date":"2025-07-30T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/no-youtube-for-under-16s-as-australia-broadens-social-media-ban-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:33:12","slug":"no-youtube-for-under-16s-as-australia-broadens-social-media-ban-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/no-youtube-for-under-16s-as-australia-broadens-social-media-ban-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"No YouTube for under-16s as Australia broadens social media ban | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"flex items-center text-center\"><figcaption class=\"text-3 font-sans uppercase mr-3 whitespace-no-wrap\"><span class=\"ls-art\">Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article<\/span><\/figcaption><audio class=\"h-5 w-60 sm:w-80 rounded-none\" preload=\"metadata\" controlslist=\"noplaybackrate nodownload\" id=\"tts\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/attachments\/speech_20250730131909680-46vqY.mp3\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came after the internet regulator urged the government last month to overturn the YouTube carve-out, citing a survey that found 37% of minors reported harmful content on the site, the worst showing for a social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m calling time on it,&#8221; Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a statement highlighting that Australian children were being negatively affected by online platforms, and reminding social media of their social responsibility. &#8220;I want Australian parents to know that we have their backs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2558701\/trump-says-us-to-impose-25-tariff-on-india-from-aug-1\">Trump says US to impose 25% tariff on India from Aug 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision broadens the ban set to take effect in December. YouTube says it is used by nearly three-quarters of Australians aged 13 to 15, and should not be classified as social media because its main activity is hosting videos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our position remains clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content, increasingly viewed on TV screens. It&#8217;s not social media,&#8221; a YouTube spokesperson said by email.<\/p>\n<p>Since the government said last year it would exempt YouTube due to its popularity with teachers, platforms covered by the ban, such as Meta&#8217;s Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, have complained. They say YouTube has key similarities to their products, including letting users interact and recommending content through an algorithm based on activity.<\/p>\n<p>The ban outlaws YouTube accounts for those younger than 16, allowing parents and teachers to show videos on it to minors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2558656\/88-magnitude-quake-strikes-russias-far-east\">8.8-magnitude quake strikes Russia\u2019s Far East<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teachers are always curators of any resource for appropriateness (and) will be judicious,&#8221; said Angela Falkenberg, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association, which supports the ban.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence has supercharged the spread of misinformation on social media platforms such as YouTube, said Adam Marre, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf. &#8220;The Australian government&#8217;s move to regulate YouTube is an important step in pushing back against the unchecked power of big tech and protecting kids,&#8221; he added in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The reversal sets up a fresh dispute with Alphabet, which threatened to withdraw some Google services from Australia in 2021 to avoid a law forcing it to pay news outlets for content appearing in searches.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, YouTube told Reuters it had written to the government urging it &#8220;to uphold the integrity of the legislative process.&#8221; Australian media said YouTube threatened a court challenge, but YouTube did not confirm that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2558673\/at-least-16-palestinians-including-13-aid-seekers-killed-in-israeli-attacks\">At least 16 Palestinians, including 13 aid seekers, killed in Israeli attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not be intimidated by legal threats when this is a genuine fight for the well-being of Australian kids,&#8221; Communications Minister Anika Wells told parliament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The law passed in November only requires &#8220;reasonable steps&#8221; by social media platforms to keep out Australians younger than 16, or face a fine of up to A$49.5 million. The government, which is due to receive a report this month on tests of age-checking products, has said those results will influence enforcement of the ban.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen\u00a0to\u00a0article Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge. The decision came after the internet regulator urged the government last month to overturn the YouTube carve-out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/765091-youtube-1411238533\/765091-youtube-1411238533-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}