YouTube hosts a lot of garbage – but the government is right to let kids keep watching it
- Written by Catherine Page Jeffery, Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
suriyachan/ShutterstockWhen the Australian government passed legislation in November last year banning young people under 16 from social media, it included exemptions for platforms “that are primarily for the purposes of education and health support”. One such platform was YouTube.
The government is currently conducting private...





