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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by OJFord on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @01:44PM (#44737266)
But this is basically the way for Australian government to try to make YouTube do that isn't it? There's already YouTube Kids, so maybe this makes YouTube think ok we need YouTube Teenz, or YouTube Educational or whatever.
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by arebop on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:08PM (#44737592)
YouTube Kids is also full of garbage. The bar to get content into YouTube Kids is substantially higher than YouTube but still the average video's educational quality is abysmal.

There are people at YouTube/Google/Alphabet who care but at the end of the day we get what the invisible hand gives us. Market forces have not yielded a well-curated educational video experience on YouTube.

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