{"id":1031003,"date":"2026-08-25T08:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031003"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T03:39:57","slug":"new-zealand-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/new-zealand-moves-to-ban-social-media-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand moves to ban social media for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON: New Zealand&#8217;s government will introduce legislation on Monday banning under 16s from using social media, joining a number of countries seeking to keep youngsters off sites such as Instagram and TikTok. <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has been investigating a social media ban for over a year, after neighbouring Australia implemented its world-first legislation in December. <\/p>\n<p>Under the Online Safety Bill, firms like Meta could be fined up to 10 percent of their global revenue if they fail to comply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON: New Zealand&#8217;s government will introduce legislation on Monday banning under 16s from using social media, joining a number of countries seeking to keep youngsters off sites such as Instagram and TikTok. New Zealand has been investigating a social media ban for over a year, after neighbouring Australia implemented its world-first legislation in December. Under the Online Safety Bill, firms like Meta could be fined up to 10 percent of their global revenue if they fail to comply.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031003","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=1031003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031027,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031003\/revisions\/1031027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}