The Australian government announced that YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least ... passed world-first laws that will ban Australian children ...

Australians under the age of 16 will be barred from creating accounts on YouTube come December. View on euronews ...

As Australia becomes the first country to take action towards a sweeping social media ban for children under 16, the internet is not pleased ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday announced that YouTube would be added to the list of social media platforms banned for children under the age of 16. "Young people under the age ...

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government ...

The move comes a month after Australia's internet regulator urged the government to reverse a planned exemption for the video ...

YouTube was listed as an exemption in November last year when the Parliament passed world-first laws that will ban Australian children younger than 16 from platforms including Facebook, Instagram ...

The ban puts the onus on social media platforms to prevent children under 16 from having an account on their sites, or risk fines of nearly 50 million Australian dollars ($32 million). A YouTube ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December ...