{"id":41846,"date":"2025-08-09T06:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/we-wish-it-never-existed-readers-tell-us-about-their-familys-use-of-youtube-38\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:11:10","slug":"we-wish-it-never-existed-readers-tell-us-about-their-familys-use-of-youtube-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/we-wish-it-never-existed-readers-tell-us-about-their-familys-use-of-youtube-38\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We wish it never existed\u2019: readers tell us about their family\u2019s use of YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impossible to monitor, a gateway to dangerous content, or a great educational tool? As the social media ban looms, parents tell us how YouTube affects their world<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/aug\/08\/australia-news-live-erin-patterson-sentence-hearing-mushroom-murders-melbourne-e-bike-delivery-riders-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/29\/children-to-be-banned-from-having-youtube-accounts-as-albanese-government-backflips-on-exemption\">Children to be banned from having YouTube accounts as Albanese government backflips on exemption<\/a><\/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>What role does YouTube play in the lives of Australian families with children? As the federal government plans to include YouTube in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/29\/children-to-be-banned-from-having-youtube-accounts-as-albanese-government-backflips-on-exemption\">forthcoming ban on social media accounts<\/a> for children under the age of 16, Guardian readers responded to a call out about their own kids\u2019 use of the platform and what they thought of the ban.<\/p>\n<p>This is what they told us.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/08\/readers-tell-us-about-their-familys-use-of-youtube-we-wish-it-never-existed-guardian-readers-tell-us-about-their-familys-use-of-youtube\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impossible to monitor, a gateway to dangerous content, or a great educational tool? As the social media ban looms, parents tell us how YouTube affects their world Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Children to be banned from having YouTube accounts as Albanese government backflips on exemption Get our breaking news email, [&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-41846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41846","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=41846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}