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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

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Post by EA-3167 »

simpaticoder wrote: post #8

Completely 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…

Putting that aside, the reality is that kids are bored, highly motivated, and networked with each other across the planet. Even more than porn, which is only going to appeal to a subset of kids, "all of Youtube" is definitely a bit more universal.

The major outcome of this legislation should be nothing more than Australian kids being the most familiar with VPN's and very little else, along with other tricks to bypass this.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by qualeed »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #18
simpaticoder wrote: post #8

Completely 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…

They can already access 3blue1brown[1] content without youtube. They just have to visit the site with the same name. 1. https://www.3blue1brown.com/#lessons

That is not the only channel of value on YouTube. Not all of them have a website with their content available.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by [deleted] »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #18
simpaticoder wrote: post #8

Completely 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…

They can already access 3blue1brown[1] content without youtube. They just have to visit the site with the same name. 1. https://www.3blue1brown.com/#lessons

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Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by trallnag »

bananapub wrote: post #11

adding more laws that will be universally ignored by anyone with a small amount of thought and effort feels like a stupid way to solve anything, but it is absolutely the Australian Way. to quote[0] a noted philosopher: > weird how a foundational myth of australia is that we’re a nation of subversive larrikins, when in actuality everyone here is an ultracop 0: https://nitter.net/tfswebb/status/976299234491121665?lang=…

Where does this myth come from? It's quite the opposite. For example, around 30 years ago hundreds of thousands of Australians willingly handed in their guns. And they accepted new laws that mostly prevented them from owning guns, and by that using them for self-defense.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by angry_moose »

kelseyfrog wrote: post #18
simpaticoder wrote: post #8

Completely 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…

They can already access 3blue1brown[1] content without youtube. They just have to visit the site with the same name. 1. https://www.3blue1brown.com/#lessons

Those are just page after page of embedded YouTube videos. It's doubtful that's a meaningful difference under this bill.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by 9rx »

> "YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content [...] It's not social media."

Aren't "sharing platforms" and "social media" the same thing? I understand a long time ago there was a dream that people would produce and share as much content as they consume, and that is what social media was supposed to be in reference to, but that imagined world never happened. Social media, as used to refer to any practical service in the real world, has always been about one-sided content being shared to a mostly consumer-only audience.

> increasingly viewed on TV screens

Are people digging old Trinitrons out of the trash, or what? If you try to buy a new "TV", you are going to get a computer with a large monitor instead.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by non- »

Teens are old enough to find their way around any content bans. This seems like a good way to introduce teens to VPN's and skirting content regulations early. It's also dumb because YouTube can teach you almost anything, I'd say it's the "best of the worst" when it comes to social media on the internet.

Re: Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

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Post by dumama »

simpaticoder wrote: post #8

Completely 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…

Youtube is optimized for engagement and ad revenue. In my experience, there's more click/rage bait and entertainment than educational content (perhaps that reflects my algorithm haha). Unless there's improved content moderation or media training, I can see how this would ultimately benefit teens as they're minds are still developing.
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