Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government said ...

Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland gave a personal guarantee to the global head of YouTube that the platform would be exempt from the country’s social-media ban for under-16s, even ...

Australia has reversed a decision that omitted YouTube from its ban on social media platforms for teenagers. A youth social media law will come into effect starting in December. "Young people under ...

YouTube will be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 years of age, an about-face by officials after the Google-owned video site had initially been left out of the legislation ...

Australia YouTube Ban: Australia will no more allow children under 16 years of age to be present on YouTube, a top minister said on Wednesday, citing the need to shield them from “predatory algorithm” ...

SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - Tech giants Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, Snapchat (SNAP.N), opens new tab and TikTok have urged Australia to reconsider a decision ...

Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner on September 25, 2023 Editor at Large In the early 1970s, Julie Inman Grant’s mother, Glenda, worked for the City of Seattle. One of her colleagues ...

In a world-first move, the Australian government has announced a sweeping social media ban for children under 16, and YouTube is now on the list. “YouTube is not social media,” claimed the platform in ...

Officials in Australia had previously indicated they would exempt YouTube from the ban, which prohibits people under 16 from having social-media accounts. SYDNEY—Australia said it will include YouTube ...

Australian teenagers under age 16 will be barred from making YouTube accounts, in an expansion of the country’s world-first ban on social media for young people. The decision comes after the country’s ...