{"id":1022707,"date":"2026-07-22T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022707"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:56:02","slug":"france-bans-social-media-access-for-children-under-15-becomes-1st-european-country-to-bar-kids-from-apps-such-as-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/france-bans-social-media-access-for-children-under-15-becomes-1st-european-country-to-bar-kids-from-apps-such-as-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"France bans social media access for children under 15; becomes 1st European country to bar kids from apps such as TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8211; France banned children under 15 from using social media on Tuesday, becoming the first country in the European Union to pass a blanket ban on the platforms as concerns grow worldwide over the harmful effects of digital content on kids. <\/p>\n<p>Both chambers of the Parliament voted in favor of the measure, a flagship initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s second term. The bill also bans the use of mobile phones in high schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8211; France banned children under 15 from using social media on Tuesday, becoming the first country in the European Union to pass a blanket ban on the platforms as concerns grow worldwide over the harmful effects of digital content on kids. Both chambers of the Parliament voted in favor of the measure, a flagship initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s second term. The bill also bans the use of mobile phones in high schools.<\/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-1022707","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\/1022707","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=1022707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022730,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022707\/revisions\/1022730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}