New teen research backs Albanese’s Youtube exemption
New research on teenagers presented at Mumbrella’s Retail Marketing Summit on Wednesday backs the Albanese government’s decision to exempt Youtube from the looming social media ban for all Australians under 16.
Last November, the federal government passed the Online Safety Act, restricting use of Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok and other social media platforms to those over 16 years of age.
Youtube dodged the ban, with the video platform being designated as an educational tool, much to the ire of Meta and Tiktok, who slammed the government’s “closed door consultation” as a breach of earlier commitments to transparency.
So half of teens think there’s inappropriate content on YouTube and that’s a win?
Come on! The stats in this article show that 51% of content is inappropriate, and we all know that most of the content published on TikTok is available on YouTube too.
Yes youtube can be educational for you to change the oil of the car but it’s not needed for child under 16.
If YouTube are not part of the ban, they need to put better age restrictions and improved content review process before publishing. Because today, kids can just freely browse unauthenticated.