{"id":1003465,"date":"2026-04-17T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003465"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T03:57:46","slug":"uk-pm-tells-social-media-bosses-to-step-up-child-online-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/17\/uk-pm-tells-social-media-bosses-to-step-up-child-online-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM tells social media bosses to step up child online safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday hinted at possible measures limiting children&#8217;s access to social media, as he met senior tech figures and warned: &#8220;Things can&#8217;t go on like this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must change because right now social media is putting our children at risk,&#8221; Starmer told the group who included Wifredo Fernandez of X, Alistair Law of TikTok, Markus Reinisch of Meta, and Ronan Harris of Snap. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a world in which children are protected, even if that means access is restricted, that is preferable to a world where harm is the price of participation,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday hinted at possible measures limiting children&#8217;s access to social media, as he met senior tech figures and warned: &#8220;Things can&#8217;t go on like this.&#8221; &#8220;They must change because right now social media is putting our children at risk,&#8221; Starmer told the group who included Wifredo Fernandez of X, Alistair Law of TikTok, Markus Reinisch of Meta, and Ronan Harris of Snap. &#8220;In a world in which children are protected, even if that means access is restricted, that is preferable to a world where harm is the price of participation,&#8221; he added.<\/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-1003465","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\/1003465","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=1003465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}