{"id":1028856,"date":"2026-08-15T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028856"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:42:09","slug":"frances-top-court-blocks-social-media-ban-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/frances-top-court-blocks-social-media-ban-for-under-15s\/","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s top court on Friday blocked a bill \u200bbanning social media access for under-15s, \u200bsaying it infringed upon freedom of expression and delivering a setback \u200bfor President Emmanuel Macron, who asked his government to rewrite the legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would have barred children younger than 15 from opening a social media account from September 1. Accounts already open would be closed \u200cwithin four months \u2060by social \u2060media platforms, which would also need to use age verification approved by the French privacy regulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s top court on Friday blocked a bill \u200bbanning social media access for under-15s, \u200bsaying it infringed upon freedom of expression and delivering a setback \u200bfor President Emmanuel Macron, who asked his government to rewrite the legislation. The bill would have barred children younger than 15 from opening a social media account from September 1. Accounts already open would be closed \u200cwithin four months \u2060by social \u2060media platforms, which would also need to use age verification approved by the French privacy regulator.<\/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-1028856","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\/1028856","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=1028856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028882,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028856\/revisions\/1028882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}