The Australian regulator urges YouTube to add to social media ban on the 16s

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Australia, the country’s Internet security regulator, Google’s video-sharing website is considering expanding the ban on the 16-year-old organization in the most harm in children.

Australia He passed through the legislation Last year, the last year was aimed at registering to connect to social media platforms, including one of 16 years old, Instagram, X, Facebook and Snapchat. The law puts Onus technology companies to apply age or face significant fines.

YouTube was released from prohibition to enter into force based on the expanding role in official education until December Also children’s entertainmentWiggles to host videos from performers like popular Australian music.

Australia’s Esafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, accused of applying the ban, will be included in the government, to enter the government, YouTube, after submitting a new research on harmful effects Social Media in children.

Speaking in Canberra on Tuesday, he said that inman Grant YouTube The number of 2,600-year-old boys aged 2,600, which faced harmful content on the site was the most common platform in the study of about 40 percent of the regulator.

The platform “these driving) users are powerless for the fight against the” rabbit holes “and said that YouTube has concerned about cutting online security teams.

On Tuesday, Google, the owner of YouTube, said the Commissioner is suitable for young users and calls parents, ban and the parents and parents are open evidence.

“The current position of the Esafy commissioner represents inconsistent and contradictory advice,” he said.

A potential U-turn, Prime Minister Anthony changed one after one of the first major tests for the Labor government to be re-elected In the nationwide surveys in May.

Minister of Communications Anika Wells, a spokesman who promoted as part of the change, the government would consider commissar advice, but no decisions were made.

Other countries in the world are closely following the world’s first efforts to restrict the entry of Australia’s social media for children, as well as the methods of applying the ban.

French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron promised to prohibit access to social media unless similarly taken at the EU level this month.

Inman said the grant was still being processed, but why these studies showed why the action was necessary.

According to him, the children’s sexual frog “crisis rates”, a quarter of the research respondents, along with misogynistic or severe content, are encouraged by dangerous problems. He said “caustic language” to harm himself, for example, it was common to harm himself.

“I believe that this can serve all parents as a signal, and to enhance their children, start talking and delete conversations and delete applications and support the government,” he said.