{"id":1024692,"date":"2026-07-30T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024692"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:24:20","slug":"elon-musks-x-says-australia-social-media-ban-crackdown-undermines-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/elon-musks-x-says-australia-social-media-ban-crackdown-undermines-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s X says Australia social media ban crackdown undermines international law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining U.S. law with plans for tougher enforcement of a teen social media ban. <\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>But the contention by X, whose parent company is Musk&#8217;s just-listed SpaceX, amounts to one of \u200cthe world&#8217;s most \u2060powerful \u2060people injecting a geopolitical element into the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X accused Australia of trying to give its internet regulator unfair information-gathering powers and undermining U.S. law with plans for tougher enforcement of a teen social media ban. Australia&#8217;s world-first law barring accounts for under-16s took effect last December, drawing criticism from social media companies, mostly based in the United States. But the contention by X, whose parent company is Musk&#8217;s just-listed SpaceX, amounts to one of \u200cthe world&#8217;s most \u2060powerful \u2060people injecting a geopolitical element into the debate.<\/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-1024692","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\/1024692","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=1024692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024711,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024692\/revisions\/1024711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}