Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
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Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#2It's important to note that this ban is for having an account - it does not ban people under 16 from watching youtube videos.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#3I think that’s a really bad idea. I owe my career to YouTube and I think especially these days it’s much more useful for learning than it was back then. The whole internet moved to bite sized content but on YouTube you can find hour long videos of people doing really cool and sometimes super niche stuff.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#4I think that’s a really bad idea. I owe my career to YouTube and I think especially these days it’s much more useful for learning than it was back then. The whole internet moved to bite sized content but on YouTube you can find hour long videos of people doing really cool and sometimes super niche stuff.
They are not being banned from watching YouTube.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#5Please ban comments. Please...
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#6I think that’s a really bad idea. I owe my career to YouTube and I think especially these days it’s much more useful for learning than it was back then. The whole internet moved to bite sized content but on YouTube you can find hour long videos of people doing really cool and sometimes super niche stuff.
Asyx, you have an opinion on the ban before reaching the 3rd paragraph of the article. I recommend reading it first.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#7It's important to note that this ban is for having an account - it does not ban people under 16 from watching youtube videos.
So you can just log off to bypass it? That seems short sighted.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#8Completely banning all of YouTube feels like throwing out the baby—valuable educational content—with the bathwater—everything else. It seems more effective for YouTube to offer a dedicated educational platform, like education.youtube.com, with content filters built in. That way, students could access channels like 3blue1brown without exposure to unrelated or less appropriate content like MrBeast or Jubilee. Heck, I might personally prefer to use that version of YT myself.
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#9Interesting, I find that youtube is a great resource for educational content and was very useful in highschool etc.
This seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but to be fair AI and really toxic context wasn't as big of a thing when I was in highschool
Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
#10Completely banning all of YouTube feels like throwing out the baby—valuable educational content—with the bathwater—everything else. It seems more effective for YouTube to offer a dedicated educational platform, like education.youtube.com, with content filters built in. That way, students could access channels like 3blue1brown without exposure to unrelated or less appropriate content like MrBeast or Jubilee. Heck, I m…
Do you want mere children exposed to David Attenborough and Mister Rogers?