{"id":1019638,"date":"2026-07-09T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019638"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:24:01","slug":"eu-moves-closer-to-kicking-kids-off-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/eu-moves-closer-to-kicking-kids-off-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"EU moves closer to kicking kids off social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on children&#8217;s use of social media in the European Union could come as early as this summer, as a long-awaited expert report next week is expected to recommend limiting minors&#8217; access to online platforms. <\/p>\n<p>After Australia became the first country in the world to ban under-16s from social media, several EU nations including Denmark and Greece demanded a similar move. <\/p>\n<p>The EU says all options are on the table, from a blanket ban on children from social media platforms to restrictions on certain services and features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on children&#8217;s use of social media in the European Union could come as early as this summer, as a long-awaited expert report next week is expected to recommend limiting minors&#8217; access to online platforms. After Australia became the first country in the world to ban under-16s from social media, several EU nations including Denmark and Greece demanded a similar move. The EU says all options are on the table, from a blanket ban on children from social media platforms to restrictions on certain services and features.<\/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-1019638","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\/1019638","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=1019638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019661,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019638\/revisions\/1019661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}