YouTube exemption exposes teen social media ban as a sham
The government’s preferential treatment of Google-owned YouTube undermines the purpose of its under-16s social media ban, and is unfair to the other tech industry players.
We are well into the federal election campaign and have barely heard a whisper from either side of politics about the world-first teen social media ban that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland announced with significant fanfare last November.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that was the point.
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