The federal government has been advised by eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant to scrap YouTube’s exemption from laws banning people under the age of 16 from using social media, which are scheduled to take effect in December.
Former communications minister Michele Rowland had cited YouTube’s educational content as one of the justifications for exempting it from the ban. YouTube’s carve-out enraged rival platforms.
Inman Grant contends that YouTube should not be exempt because it provides access to the types of ‘online harms’ that the proposed laws aim to address.
