{"id":40971,"date":"2025-07-10T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/youtube-creators-and-esafety-commissioner-at-odds-over-whether-to-exclude-platform-from-under-16-ban-5\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:04:42","slug":"youtube-creators-and-esafety-commissioner-at-odds-over-whether-to-exclude-platform-from-under-16-ban-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/youtube-creators-and-esafety-commissioner-at-odds-over-whether-to-exclude-platform-from-under-16-ban-5\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube creators and eSafety commissioner at odds over whether to exclude platform from under-16 ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Inman Grant releases research showing younger children most exposed to harmful content on YouTube, but entertainers say banning platform would be a \u2018great loss\u2019<\/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>Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has released research underpinning her call to not exempt YouTube from the under-16s social media ban, with a survey revealing the platform is the most used by children under 16, and the place where children are most exposed to harmful content.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Australian YouTubers push for the federal government to exclude the platform from ban, after YouTube warned creators the ban could \u201caffect how your work is valued and viewed\u201d.<\/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\/jul\/11\/youtube-creators-and-esafety-commissioner-at-odds-over-whether-to-exclude-platform-from-under-16-ban-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Inman Grant releases research showing younger children most exposed to harmful content on YouTube, but entertainers say banning platform would be a \u2018great loss\u2019 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia\u2019s online safety regulator has released research underpinning her call to not exempt YouTube from the under-16s social media [&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-40971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40971","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=40971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}