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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by angry_moose on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:01PM (#44737495)
Those are just page after page of embedded YouTube videos. It's doubtful that's a meaningful difference under this bill.
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:17PM (#44737705)
What are you talking about? You can click on any of the lessons and get text and images. https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/essence-of-calculus
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by lanfeust6 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:24PM (#44737786)
Which aren't videos. The entire draw is the video format.
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by kelseyfrog on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:39PM (#44737970)
That seems awfully particular.
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by schoen on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:22PM (#44739074)
Grant Sanderson's mathematical animations and visualizations are famously excellent, though. He developed his own mathematics animation software just for his channel. I wouldn't think of video as preferable to textbooks for math education in general, but for his sort of videos, I might!
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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by Aurornis on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @04:44PM (#44739295)
The bill only bans them from having accounts.

It does not ban them from streaming embedded YouTube videos or even browsing YouTube.com

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by giantg2 on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:30PM (#44739736)
"The bill only bans them from having accounts."

No, the bill says they must take reasonable steps to prevent underage persons from accessing their services. Arguably, this means embedded videos will need to be restricted just as the regular site will be.

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