{"id":41481,"date":"2025-07-27T10:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/youtube-makes-last-ditch-attempt-to-lobby-government-against-inclusion-in-under-16s-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:07:58","slug":"youtube-makes-last-ditch-attempt-to-lobby-government-against-inclusion-in-under-16s-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/youtube-makes-last-ditch-attempt-to-lobby-government-against-inclusion-in-under-16s-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube makes last-ditch attempt to lobby government against inclusion in under-16s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google to host major event featuring popular YouTubers inside Parliament House as PM downplays tech giant\u2019s legal threat<\/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 is making a last-ditch effort to persuade the government <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\">not to include it in the under-16s social media ban<\/a>, objecting to what it says is an \u201cabrupt policy reversal\u201d and arguing the video service is not a social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>Google, YouTube\u2019s owner, will host a major event featuring popular YouTubers inside Parliament House this week, as a final decision looms on which tech platforms will be off-limits for children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/27\/google-canberra-event-as-youtube-lobbies-against-inclusion-in-australian-under-16s-social-media-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to host major event featuring popular YouTubers inside Parliament House as PM downplays tech giant\u2019s legal threat Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast YouTube is making a last-ditch effort to persuade the government not to include it in the under-16s social media ban, objecting to what it says is [&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-41481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41481","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=41481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}