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Despite Australia's strict social media ban for minors, a YouTube exemption poses risks
Australia's government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing website exposes them to addictive and harmful content. Australia will block video-sharing platforms ...

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