{"id":1030957,"date":"2026-08-25T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030957"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T02:41:30","slug":"new-zealand-to-introduce-bill-banning-social-media-for-children-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/new-zealand-to-introduce-bill-banning-social-media-for-children-under-16\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to introduce bill banning social media for children under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Prime Minister \u200bChristopher Luxon said on Monday \u200bhis party will introduce a bill in Parliament that \u200bseeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10% of a platform&#8217;s global revenue for non-compliance. <\/p>\n<p>The bill would require social \u200cmedia platforms to \u2060take \u2060reasonable steps to verify users&#8217; ages, including by utilising existing account information, facial technology \u200band digital identity documents. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We simply cannot accept the harm being done to a generation \u200bof New Zealand children,&#8221; Luxon said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Prime Minister \u200bChristopher Luxon said on Monday \u200bhis party will introduce a bill in Parliament that \u200bseeks to ban children under 16 from using social media, proposing fines of up to 10% of a platform&#8217;s global revenue for non-compliance. The bill would require social \u200cmedia platforms to \u2060take \u2060reasonable steps to verify users&#8217; ages, including by utilising existing account information, facial technology \u200band digital identity documents. &#8220;We simply cannot accept the harm being done to a generation \u200bof New Zealand children,&#8221; Luxon said in a statement.<\/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-1030957","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\/1030957","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=1030957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030958,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030957\/revisions\/1030958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}