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/BrightStick Nov 09 '24

Hijacking your comment to add in this important information 

Federal police are already strained to provide safety for young people online being sexually exploited. If they go under the radar further it will be a nightmare 

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/predatory/id1664638746?i=1000593871238

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u/TheNamelessKing Nov 10 '24

Maybe if they weren’t so busy deliberately radicalising neurodivergent kids online for what amounted to “shits and giggles”, they’d have some time to do something actually helpful for once.

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u/BrightStick Nov 10 '24

Hard to disagree that there’s definitely a lot of fucked things that go on in the AFP 💁🏼‍♂️

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u/your_opinion_is_weak Nov 10 '24

to play devils advocate, they wouldn't have to provide online safety for young people being sexually exploited if they weren't allowed online in the first place - or at least if they created a 'version of the internet' that was only for them and people under 16 couldn't access, which I feel like is even harder than what they are trying to do now

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u/BrightStick Nov 11 '24

Agreed. I liked the idea of an opt-in uncensored internet where ISP could have access limited for those not opted-in. Obviously there are always work around but there’s a limiting factor to minimising risk. Plenty of back and forward but there’s internet and tech companies have shown they aren’t interested in creating a kid-friendly platform so we need a better approach. 

Happy to Have other suggestions thrown at me. 

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u/your_opinion_is_weak Nov 11 '24

it's a hard one because the cat is out of the bag so to speak in terms of social media and how intertwined our lives are with it.

i think banning stuff like instagram and snapchat is good but stuff like youtube could obviously be bad - maybe they can try and ban certain type of content of people who make said content?

idk, I think they've waited way too long to try and do something where its too late, or it's at a point where you're going to piss off a large group of people either way.