Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by johnnyanmac on Thursday July 31, 2025 @04:47AM (#44743682)

Something being hard shouldn't be a reason to not do it. Put the features in and punish those who abuse the system. That's what regulation should be for. I think in general we need a wider solution to rampant botting as AI makes it even easier to bot.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by HPsquared on Thursday July 31, 2025 @06:49AM (#44744297)

If the cost exceeds the benefit, that's a reason to not do something.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by tremon on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:36AM (#44744572)

But no one is forcing you to myopically express that benefit as solely "increase shareholder value", that's a choice.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by hobs on Thursday July 31, 2025 @06:55AM (#44744320)

If you want to operate at "dominant player in the industry" there's a lot of reasons you have to do stuff that has reasons not to be done, saying "its hard" isn't a good enough excuse if you want to get the lions share of the market.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by HPsquared on Thursday July 31, 2025 @07:30AM (#44744532)

Dominant players can also afford to do a lot of things without immediate payoff, e.g. Google, Bell Labs.

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Re:Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps... by johnnyanmac on Thursday July 31, 2025 @01:59PM (#44748289)

Somehow I don't think the billion dollar monopoly on video hosting is worried about doing anything more than serving adverts at this point. So let's just enshittify the product until we get broken up or a competitor somehow rises.

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