{"id":1029704,"date":"2026-08-19T08:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029704"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:35:10","slug":"tech-ceos-are-wary-of-screen-time-for-their-children-not-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/tech-ceos-are-wary-of-screen-time-for-their-children-not-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech CEOs are wary of screen time for their children, not society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is bad for children. <\/p>\n<p>That was the blunt verdict in a recent spate of high-tech court cases in California, Kentucky and New Mexico. At a moment when Silicon Valley has never been more dominant or ambitious, one of its signature products has all the allure \u2014 and the lawsuits \u2014 of cigarettes circa 1990. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, opening statements begin in Oakland, California, for the latest social media trial. California and other states have brought a case against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, saying the company \u201charnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage and ultimately ensnare youth and teens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is bad for children. That was the blunt verdict in a recent spate of high-tech court cases in California, Kentucky and New Mexico. At a moment when Silicon Valley has never been more dominant or ambitious, one of its signature products has all the allure \u2014 and the lawsuits \u2014 of cigarettes circa 1990. On Tuesday, opening statements begin in Oakland, California, for the latest social media trial. California and other states have brought a case against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, saying the company \u201charnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies to entice, engage and ultimately ensnare [&hellip;]<\/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-1029704","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\/1029704","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=1029704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029723,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029704\/revisions\/1029723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}