With the new rule, children under the age of 16 will be banned from all social media operations in Australia.
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Australia has announced that children under the age of 16 will be banned from using YouTube. Australia has already announced a ban on other social networks a few months ago.
With the new rules announced to be implemented from December of this year, children under the age of 16 in Australia will be banned from all social media operations.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Information Minister Annika Wells informed about this rule, which will be implemented from the 10th of December, at a press conference held in the capital Canberra.
Under the restrictions announced by the government, it will be possible to watch age-appropriate videos on YouTube, but you will not be able to keep videos and other materials by operating an account in your own name. In November last year, the government passed a law banning children under the age of 16 from using TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and X. But YouTube was not banned at that time. But now the government has announced to ban YouTube as well. It has been mentioned that the first 'Age Restricted Social Media Platform' in the world will be taken to prevent children under the specified age from opening accounts.
Australian Prime Minister Albanizi has said that social media is harming children socially. "We want to tell the parents that we are with them," he said. Australia's Communications Minister Wales has said that Australia is trying to keep its children safe. Games played online, messaging and education and health apps are not included in this ban.
Banned companies can be fined up to 50 million Australian dollars if found not to comply with the law. According to Australia's E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, a survey of 2,600 children revealed to news media that four out of ten children have been exposed to harmful content.
Center for Excellence in Child and Family Services in a recent report published by the E-Safety Commission 95 percent of 13- to 15-year-olds used social media last year. Likewise, 1.3 million children between the ages of 8 and 12 used social media, of which 36 percent had their own accounts, while 54 percent used their parents' accounts.
