{"id":872438,"date":"2025-09-12T02:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/youtube-ban-for-under-16s\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:11:53","slug":"youtube-ban-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/12\/youtube-ban-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube ban for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-ui=\"container\" id=\"fusion-app\">\n<header>\n<div data-test-ui=\"header\" id=\"masthead-header\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/\" data-ref-page-element=\"null:nav:1:home\" aria-label=\"go to homepage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/pf\/resources\/logos\/default.svg?d=964\" width=\"306\" height=\"52\" alt=\"NZ Herald\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<nav><\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<p><main id=\"main\" role=\"main\" data-test-ui=\"main\"><\/p>\n<article data-test-ui=\"v2-article v2-article--sidebar-hidden\">\n<section data-test-ui=\"v2-article-section-top\">\n<header data-test-ui=\"article__header\" data-ref-group=\"header\">\n<div data-test-ui=\"article__header-info\" data-ref-group=\"author\">\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p><time data-test-ui=\"author-display--date\">30 Jul, 2025 12:13 AM<\/time><span data-test-ui=\"author-read-time\"><span><\/span>Quick Read<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-ui=\"hero-container\">\n<p data-test-ui=\"hero-wrapper\">\n<figure data-test-ui=\"hero-figure\"><figcaption>Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube. Photo \/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube. Photo \/Getty Images<\/p>\n<section data-test-ui=\"article-top-body\">\n<p class>Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children aged under-16 from video-streaming site YouTube, a top minister said  today, citing the need to shield them from \u201cpredatory algorithms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class>\n         <span>\u201cWe want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are,\u201d Communications Minister Anika Wells said<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/youtube-ban-for-under-16s-australian-minister-says-theres-not-a-place-for-predatory-algorithms-targeting-children\/42SPUPY3DJHIPE3FVF6IRW3LME\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP 30 Jul, 2025 12:13 AMQuick Read Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube. Photo \/Getty Images Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-streaming site YouTube. Photo \/Getty Images Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":872439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1584,49,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-872438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-under","8":"category-youtube","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}