Pinterest and Roblox remain exempt from the ban coming into effect from Dec. 10.A gamepad is pictured as a screen displays the online Twitch platform in Toulouse, southwestern France, on June 15, 2021. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images11/20/2025|Updated: 11/20/2025Australia’s online safety regulator has formally included Twitch under the country’s impending under-16 social media ban.The platform, was classified as an “age-restricted social media platform” on Nov. 21, three weeks before the world-first ban takes effect on Dec. 10.Naziya Alvi Rahman is a Canberra-based journalist who covers political issues in Australia. She can be reached at [email protected].Author’s Selected Articles
Twitch Added to Australias Under-16 Social Media Ban
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