{"id":1001015,"date":"2026-04-04T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001015"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:00:10","slug":"ahead-of-greek-social-media-ban-parents-desperate-to-separate-children-from-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/ahead-of-greek-social-media-ban-parents-desperate-to-separate-children-from-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Greek social media ban, parents desperate to separate children from phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek mother Georgia Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that \u200bsocial media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart \u200btalks; internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flare as she fights the allure of \u200bhis screen and its videos and messages. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Efstathiou may be getting the help she desperately wants. In the coming days, the Greek government is expected to announce a social media ban for children under 15, joining the growing ranks of nations seeking to shield young \u200cchildren from addiction and \u2060online \u2060abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek mother Georgia Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that \u200bsocial media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart \u200btalks; internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flare as she fights the allure of \u200bhis screen and its videos and messages. Now, Efstathiou may be getting the help she desperately wants. In the coming days, the Greek government is expected to announce a social media ban for children under 15, joining the growing ranks of nations seeking to shield young \u200cchildren from addiction and \u2060online \u2060abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}