{"id":1002979,"date":"2026-04-15T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002979"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T05:45:45","slug":"indian-parents-back-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-new-uk-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/indian-parents-back-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-new-uk-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian parents back social media ban for under-16s, new UK survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in India have strongly backed a social media ban for under-16s, logging the second-highest score at 75% after Malaysia (77%) in new worldwide research released by the UK-based education charity Varkey Foundation on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Family First analysis for the foundation follows Australia&#8217;s recent social media ban for under-16s at a time when other nations are exploring similar measures. <\/p>\n<p>In India, majority of Gen Z respondents (73%) also supported such a ban &#8211; the highest of all the countries polled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in India have strongly backed a social media ban for under-16s, logging the second-highest score at 75% after Malaysia (77%) in new worldwide research released by the UK-based education charity Varkey Foundation on Tuesday. The Family First analysis for the foundation follows Australia&#8217;s recent social media ban for under-16s at a time when other nations are exploring similar measures. In India, majority of Gen Z respondents (73%) also supported such a ban &#8211; the highest of all the countries polled.<\/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-1002979","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\/1002979","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=1002979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}