{"id":979513,"date":"2025-12-10T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979513"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:08:09","slug":"youtube-gives-four-reasons-with-social-media-ban-in-australia-is-less-safe-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/10\/youtube-gives-four-reasons-with-social-media-ban-in-australia-is-less-safe-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube gives four reasons with social media ban in Australia is \u2018less safe\u2019 for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As social media ban for under-16 in Australia is set to take effect on December 10, Google\u2019s YouTube has voiced strong opposition to legislation, asserting that such blanket bans are likely to be \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and ultimately make children less safe online. The platform\u2019s stance comes as governments worldwide consider regulations to balance online safety with young people\u2019s access to educational and creative material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week we shared an update on what YouTube will look like for users and creators in Australia as a result of the new law. As other governments around the world consider how to tackle the very real challenge of helping young people stay safe online while also helping them access positive material, it&#8217;s clear that blanket account bans will have extremely negative consequences,\u201d YouTube said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As social media ban for under-16 in Australia is set to take effect on December 10, Google\u2019s YouTube has voiced strong opposition to legislation, asserting that such blanket bans are likely to be \u201ccounterproductive\u201d and ultimately make children less safe online. The platform\u2019s stance comes as governments worldwide consider regulations to balance online safety with young people\u2019s access to educational and creative material. \u201cLast week we shared an update on what YouTube will look like for users and creators in Australia as a result of the new law. As other governments around the world consider how to tackle the very [&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-979513","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\/979513","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=979513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}