Received this message on my you tube account

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Due to a new law in Australia, starting 10 December, users must be 16 or older to sign in to YouTube. This means they will lose access to like, subscribe, and comment on your videos.

YouTube access restrictions for users under 16 in Australia
Due to a new law in Australia, the minimum age required to sign in to YouTube in Australia is 16. This means that starting on 10 December 2025, users under 16 years old will be automatically signed out from YouTube. This includes any supervised pre-teen and teen accounts. We recognise this has important implications for users, and we encourage you to review your options below.

Note: Signing out of YouTube won’t sign you out from your Google Account or other Google services.
When signed out, you won’t have access to certain features, including:

Likes
Subscriptions
Private playlists
Memberships
If you have a YouTube channel, your channel will no longer be visible to other users, and you will not be able to access it, including:

Uploads
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Nathan said:
Probably a good idea, Youtube has become so rife with garbagy, questionable material. The new policy will create hardships for some users no doubt.
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There are many under 16-year-olds who use Youtube as a learning platform.
Youtube will still be available to them, but not via an account owned by them.
They can view content, just cannot comment or upload videos.
 

Here's the real problem.

Platforms don't want to take responsibility, So Youtube don't want the job to filter/manage/censor egregious content. They do the very minimum. The same applies for Ebay and Amazon. They put all the responsibility in the hands of users, and users only care about clicks.

If Youtube stepped up and truly managed their content, this wouldn't be needed. We need to remember, different countries and cultures have different norms and rules. Youtube have the resources to deal with this, but they don't want the responsibility.

Understand - this has been a known issue since the 90's. I recall discussing it was an attorney on a plane back then. With responsibility lies liability, and they want to hold that off. They do it through User Agreements, lobbying to influence our laws, and "investment".
 
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I watched A current affairs a few nights ago @Bretrick they had a big group of 10~ 12 year olds complaining about ….. the new under 16 year olds social media accounts and some if them said their mothers will make accounts for them to still post their fashion / photography videos online …….WHAT ,,,,, this is why the government is banning under 16 year olds …..some youngsters are dressing up like adults at 10 ~ 12 years old …posting videos ….which apparently is prime bait for pedophiles / perverts to copy paste and use on fellow perverts sites …..

oh well , don't think it’s going to work to well unless the goverment really gets tough on parents or caregivers
One of my younger GK has an account set up by his mother when he was quite young , I was shocked to see some of the extremely violent / nothing short of horror games ( to me ) on a PlayStation/ online he was playing on a recent visit ….he is 12 …
 
Capt Lightning said:
How do they know what age you are? What's to stop a parent or older sibling allow them to use their account?
Sounds like Australia is becoming more of a 'police state'.
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They will initially close all accounts that show an under 16 person is the subscriber.
They will use facial recognition technology, which has already show to be unreliable.

What's to stop a parent or older sibling allow them to use their account?
There is no way this method can be policed.

No doubt about it. We are rapidly becoming a police state. Has been going on for over a decade. All in the name of "Public Safety"
 
Kadee said:
I watched A current affairs a few nights ago @Bretrick they had a big group of 10~ 12 year olds complaining about ….. the new under 16 year olds social media accounts and some if them said their mothers will make accounts for them to still post their fashion / photography videos online …….WHAT ,,,,, this is why the government is banning under 16 year olds …..some youngsters are dressing up like adults at 10 ~ 12 years old …posting videos ….which apparently is prime bait for pedophiles / perverts to copy paste and use on fellow perverts sites …..

oh well , don't think it’s going to work to well unless the goverment really gets tough on parents or caregivers
One of my younger GK has an account set up by his mother when he was quite young , I was shocked to see some of the extremely violent / nothing short of horror games ( to me ) on a PlayStation/ online he was playing on a recent visit ….he is 12 …
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The ones who will play by the rules will relinquish their social media sites.
The ones who do not wish to do so will continue through which ever means they find available.
There are many young people using social media as a learning tool. These ones will miss out on all they have built up over their time on social media.
 
mrstime said:
Kids always find a way to get around laws.DH and I were talking about how we got cigarettes , he at 11 me at 12.
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And adults …some will bow to pressure just to keep the kids quiet …outta their hair so to speak

Both my parents smoked so it would have been easy for me to get them …..but I choose not to ever smoke or drink
and never have ….on the other hand my daughter was never exposed to cigarettes or alcohol in her life ….but she started smoking at 14 ….
that I know of ….no idea where she got them .and at almost 53 she’s still smoking …and got a constant cough

@mrstime
 
AnneTeak said:
this just happened to me on a gmail account. I refused to upload my government ID or my credit card number as proof that I was over 18, so they deleted my account.
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That is simply disgusting. Everyone needs an email account, but no way can anyone be expected to give over their ID to online entities.
Scurrilous is what it is.
 
When you set up a Gmail account they have lotsa information about you anyway ….just not a photo unless you add one ..which you can …it sorta like a avatar on your account I’ve just got a cat at the moment …
 
I was locked out of my Google Youtube account even though I was logged in via my gmail account for about 3 hours today before it magically started working again. Kept showing the below and was no way to actually sign in as I was already signed in to gmail:

Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community. Learn more.

Apparently Google has been slowly forcing growing numbers of users to do so over this last year. I can't even view my own videos without first login now. Although the window complained about bots, that's just a corporate bean counter's lie. The real issue is so they can better track users for ad revenue. Then I went to a forum website where members have posted videos and received the same blocking message. Oddly the page loaded very slowly. Next I cleared all my browser cookie and history data, exited, and re-entered the browser. And same issue.

Search, found the below:

YouTube is increasingly prompting users to sign in, even for basic viewing, due to a combination of business strategies and technical requirements
. These prompts are often dismissible but appear frequently to encourage account usage.
The primary reasons YouTube asks users to log in include:

To verify age for restricted content If you are not signed in, YouTube cannot verify you meet the age requirements for certain videos, making them inaccessible.
To maximize ad revenue and data collection A signed-in user provides much richer data for personalized ad targeting, which increases advertising value for Google. By forcing users to log in, YouTube can better track viewing habits and interests.
To prevent view inflation and bots YouTube uses sign-in prompts as one method to ensure that views are coming from real human users rather than automated bots, which helps maintain the integrity of view counts and payment systems for creators.
To encourage use of premium features Google officially states they are "testing ways to remind people to sign in" to highlight features like subscriptions, playlists, and community interaction (likes/comments), which require an account.
To enforce viewing on the main platform The prompts can sometimes appear when watching embedded videos on third-party websites. This is believed to be a deliberate tactic to route viewers back to YouTube.com, where ads are more effectively displayed and tracked.
 
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