Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google (www.theregister.com)

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[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It feels like this is a coordinated ‘long game’ to banning vpns. Kids bypass ‘safety controls’ using a vpn, therefore vpn must be banned to keep kids safe

[-] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

It is, and the purpose is to prepare for war. In each country the excuse is different, but in all of them people are getting an everincreasing restriction on internet use. See UK for reference

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago

Would like to see how many companies function without VPN ...

Couldn't do my job without VPN/Wireguard

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 days ago

They would blacklist consumer VPN IPs and block payments to them, not prevent you from logging in to a corp network.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

It's rather easy to setup a VPS with a VPN.

so that law would again pretty much accomplish nothing

Politicians and IT... Always a dream team

[-] shrodes@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Yeah but you forget, the laws of mathematics don’t apply here.

So clearly Australia has some strong influence such that they could pull this off!

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Australia can still require VPS providers to log IPs. This is the country with the backdooring law, common sense does not apply seemingly.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 days ago

First off, I can't believe YouTube described its content as "high-quality", because most of it isn't. Second off, what the hell did Google expect? They've been doing a piss-poor job at reviewing their content for years and even when they actually do, they don't do it because they want to make the platform more comfortable for kids to use or anything virtuous like that, it was to make the advertisers happy. So yeah, now the governments are involved, tough shit.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 4 days ago

Probably high quality compared to Instagram and tiktok

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Not exactly a high bar to clear.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

au contraire, Youtube shorts are still inescapable hot garbage

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Ya not wrong

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

If parents won't do it, someone has to. I have young daughters and the sexist shit that youtube keeps showing young boys has me so nervous for their futures. Youtube in my house is only accessible on the living room TV where I am fully aware of what they are watching.