{"id":978171,"date":"2025-12-03T11:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978171"},"modified":"2025-12-03T11:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:49:52","slug":"youtube-to-follow-australias-teen-social-media-ban-confirms-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/youtube-to-follow-australias-teen-social-media-ban-confirms-company\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube to follow Australia\u2019s teen social media ban, confirms company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s video streaming platform YouTube has now announced that it will comply with Australia\u2019s landmark law which will ban children under 16 years of age from various social media platforms. This announcement made by YouTube ends weeks of uncertainty over whether YouTube would challenge its inclusion in the ban. \u201cThis is a disappointing update to share. We deeply care about the safety of kids and teens on our platform; it\u2019s why we spent more than a decade building robust protections and parental controls that families rely on for a safer YouTube experience. But as we have consistently said, this rushed regulation misunderstands our platform and the way young Australians use it. Most importantly, this law will not fulfill its promise to make kids safer online, and will, in fact, make Australian kids less safe on YouTube. We\u2019ve heard from parents and educators who share these concerns,\u201d said YouTube in a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s video streaming platform YouTube has now announced that it will comply with Australia\u2019s landmark law which will ban children under 16 years of age from various social media platforms. This announcement made by YouTube ends weeks of uncertainty over whether YouTube would challenge its inclusion in the ban. \u201cThis is a disappointing update to share. We deeply care about the safety of kids and teens on our platform; it\u2019s why we spent more than a decade building robust protections and parental controls that families rely on for a safer YouTube experience. But as we have consistently said, this rushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}