{"id":1014679,"date":"2026-06-16T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014679"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:33:12","slug":"florida-sues-tiktok-claiming-it-violates-state-child-safety-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/florida-sues-tiktok-claiming-it-violates-state-child-safety-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims it is violating the state&#8217;s law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts. <\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, filed in state court in St. Lucie County, Florida Attorney General \u200bJames Uthmeier, a Republican, accuses TikTok of violating the law by allowing underage users to access the platform and misrepresenting the amount of violent or sexual content young users can be exposed to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s attorney general sued TikTok on Monday over claims it is violating the state&#8217;s law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 to create accounts. In the lawsuit, filed in state court in St. Lucie County, Florida Attorney General \u200bJames Uthmeier, a Republican, accuses TikTok of violating the law by allowing underage users to access the platform and misrepresenting the amount of violent or sexual content young users can be exposed to.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014679","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=1014679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014700,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014679\/revisions\/1014700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}