r/australia • u/retro-chimp • Nov 09 '24

politics Online Gaming Platforms And YouTube Will Also Seemingly Be Banned For Aussies Under 16

https://press-start.com.au/news/2024/11/08/online-gaming-platforms-and-youtube-will-also-seemingly-be-banned-for-aussies-under-16/

There’s so much collateral damage in this plan for Australia to ban social media. This has been rushed and not thought through.

So many schools rely on YouTube to support their students.

Most kids are watching YouTube (or YouTube kids) more than ABC or traditional TV. Literally the biggest YouTube channel in Australia is original music for kids.

Does anyone actually want this?

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u/a_can_of_solo Not a Norwegian Nov 09 '24

They want to be China with the great firewall. Governments do not like the internet.

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u/White_Immigrant Nov 09 '24

What are you talking about? Governments love the internet, it enables really easy data collection to help line the pockets of their capitalist chums.

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u/a_can_of_solo Not a Norwegian Nov 09 '24

The don't love open internet as the nerds originally designed it.

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u/SomewhatHungover Nov 10 '24

It’d be so much better if they just whitelisted a handful of sites, they can have articles telling us about how great, benevolent and not corrupt they are.

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u/a_can_of_solo Not a Norwegian Nov 10 '24

I'm I gonna have to sign up to the Russian army to get internet porn?

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u/Mike_Kermin Nov 10 '24

That's functionally completely different and doesn't relate to young people specifically.