{"id":1030330,"date":"2026-08-21T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030330"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:23:14","slug":"restricting-social-media-for-children-govts-domain-says-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/restricting-social-media-for-children-govts-domain-says-delhi-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Restricting social media for children Govt\u2019s domain, says Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday said banning or regulating the use of social media by children fell in the realm of the Centre\u2019s policy-making, and asked the authorities to decide on this aspect. A bench of Justices V Kameswar Rao and Manmeet PS Arora refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to restrict the use of social media by children and asked the central Government to consider it as a representation. <\/p>\n<p>The bench, however, refused to set a timeline for the authorities to complete the exercise. \u201cYour views would be taken into consideration by the respondents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday said banning or regulating the use of social media by children fell in the realm of the Centre\u2019s policy-making, and asked the authorities to decide on this aspect. A bench of Justices V Kameswar Rao and Manmeet PS Arora refused to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to restrict the use of social media by children and asked the central Government to consider it as a representation. The bench, however, refused to set a timeline for the authorities to complete the exercise. \u201cYour views would be taken into consideration by the respondents.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030330","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=1030330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030337,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030330\/revisions\/1030337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}