YouTube has outlined three grounds on which it could legally challenge its inclusion in the under-16s social media ban, which is due to come into effect in just over two months. In July, the federal government reversed an earlier decision to exclude YouTube from the ban, acting on advice from the eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant. The second is the company’s claim that YouTube is not a social media platform but a video streaming platform. More than two months since the letter was sent, and just over two months until the 10 December commencement of the social media ban, YouTube has yet to challenge the law in court. “The categories … could capture content that while upsetting may not necessarily be of the type of content that should be restricted.