{"id":1021384,"date":"2026-07-16T08:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021384"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:49:37","slug":"uk-to-impose-midnight-curfew-on-social-media-use-by-teens-aged-16-and-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/uk-to-impose-midnight-curfew-on-social-media-use-by-teens-aged-16-and-17\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to impose midnight curfew on social media use by teens aged 16 and 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government on Wednesday unveiled plans to bring in a midnight curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds accessing social media as part of measures to protect teenagers from the most addictive aspects of such online platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The restrictions, which will have an opt-out option, follow a blanket ban on social media use for under-16s announced last month that is set to take effect by Spring 2027. <\/p>\n<p>Restrictions on certain functionalities such as livestreaming and stranger communication will be kept on by default for 16- and 17-year-olds and forced breaks in infinite scrolling for under-18s are also in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government on Wednesday unveiled plans to bring in a midnight curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds accessing social media as part of measures to protect teenagers from the most addictive aspects of such online platforms. The restrictions, which will have an opt-out option, follow a blanket ban on social media use for under-16s announced last month that is set to take effect by Spring 2027. Restrictions on certain functionalities such as livestreaming and stranger communication will be kept on by default for 16- and 17-year-olds and forced breaks in infinite scrolling for under-18s are also in the works.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021384","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=1021384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021399,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021384\/revisions\/1021399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}