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Anna Desmarais

Australia adds YouTube to social media ban for children under age 16

Australian teenagers under age 16 will be barred from making YouTube accounts, in an expansion of the country’s world-first ban on social media for young people.

The decision comes after the country’s internet regulator asked the government to include YouTube in its ban on social media for under-16s last month. A previous decision had allowed YouTube to sidestep the policy, which will go into effect later this year. 

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