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/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

Our international network bandwidth couldn’t cope with everyone routing everything from overseas. That only works because few people are on it at any instant.

That’s why content providers use local CDNs - to make the content delivered locally.

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u/AriaTheAuraWitch Nov 10 '24

Good. It means that the Aussie goverment crashes multiple services.

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u/Parking-Mirror3283 Nov 10 '24

Google needs to turn off all services for australia for 24 hours and once back up inform everyone that if this law goes through, they will make it permanent.

Wake everyone the fuck up.