Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner on September 25, 2023 Editor at Large In the early 1970s, Julie Inman Grant’s mother, Glenda, worked for the City of Seattle. One of her colleagues ...

Australian teenagers under age 16 will be barred from making YouTube accounts, in an expansion of the country’s world-first ban on social media for young people. The decision comes after the country’s ...

The global conversation about how social media affects the mental health of children and teens is intensifying, yet Australia has taken a leading initiative by pushing stricter regulations. By adding ...

Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and ...

SYDNEY, July 30 (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the ...

The Australian government has now included YouTube in its upcoming social media ban for users under 16, after previously planning to leave it out. This puts YouTube in the same regulatory bracket as ...

In a world-first move, the Australian government has announced a sweeping social media ban for children under 16, and YouTube is now on the list. “YouTube is not social media,” claimed the platform in ...

Google-owned YouTube highlighted in a blog on its Australian site the country’s pending under-16 social media ban would actually put young users at more risk, arguing they are safer when they are ...

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 said ...