{"id":40256,"date":"2025-06-24T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/youtube-fires-back-amid-push-to-include-platform-in-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-3\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:07:20","slug":"youtube-fires-back-amid-push-to-include-platform-in-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/youtube-fires-back-amid-push-to-include-platform-in-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-3\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube fires back amid push to include platform in Australia\u2019s under-16s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online video hosting service accuses the nation\u2019s online safety boss Julie Inman Grant of ignoring parents and teachers<\/p>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube has criticised calls for it to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jun\/24\/youtube-should-not-be-exempt-from-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-esafety-commissioner-says\">included in the under-16s social media ban<\/a>, accusing the nation\u2019s online safety boss of ignoring parents and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has urged the government to rethink its decision to carve out the video sharing platform from the minimum social media age which will apply to apps such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jun\/24\/youtube-fires-back-at-esafety-commissioners-push-for-platforms-inclusion-in-under-16s-social-media-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online video hosting service accuses the nation\u2019s online safety boss Julie Inman Grant of ignoring parents and teachers Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast YouTube has criticised calls for it to be included in the under-16s social media ban, accusing the nation\u2019s online safety boss of ignoring parents and teachers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}