"At YouTube, we believe in protecting kids in the digital world, not from the digital world. That's why we've invested for more than a decade in consultation with child development experts to build age-appropriate products for our youngest users, like YouTube Kids, supervised experiences for teens and tweens, default wellbeing settings for all teens and robust parental controls. As the Social Media Minimum Age Act requires kids to use YouTube without an account, it removes the very parental controls and"
"safety filters built to protect them - it will not make kids safer on our platform." The law also fundamentally misunderstands why teens come to YouTube in the first place. YouTube is a video streaming service where they come to watch and learn- everything from 'how to tie a tie' videos, to famous speeches, to newsmaking podcasts, to live concerts, to epic sports highlights. And increasingly, kids, teens and families are watching YouTube on television screens in their living room.""
Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act raises the minimum age to sign in to YouTube so users under 16 will be automatically signed out beginning 10 December 2025, including supervised pre-teen and teen accounts. The law requires kids to use YouTube without accounts and removes parental controls and safety filters that had been built to protect them. YouTube highlights existing protections such as YouTube Kids, supervised experiences for tweens and teens, default wellbeing settings for teens, and robust parental controls. YouTube emphasizes that teens primarily use the platform to watch and learn varied video content and that many families view YouTube on television screens.
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