{"id":1031062,"date":"2026-08-25T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031062"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:41:51","slug":"new-zealand-pm-proposes-banning-children-from-using-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/25\/new-zealand-pm-proposes-banning-children-from-using-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM proposes banning children from using social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has unveiled a proposed law banning children younger than 16 from using social media platforms, citing what he said Monday was \u201charm being done to a generation\u201d of young people. <\/p>\n<p>However, the bill hasn\u2019t yet attracted enough support to pass into law because two of the three parties in Luxon\u2019s coalition government will vote against it. Passage would require support from opposition lawmakers, who have yet to decide how they would vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has unveiled a proposed law banning children younger than 16 from using social media platforms, citing what he said Monday was \u201charm being done to a generation\u201d of young people. However, the bill hasn\u2019t yet attracted enough support to pass into law because two of the three parties in Luxon\u2019s coalition government will vote against it. Passage would require support from opposition lawmakers, who have yet to decide how they would vote.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031062","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=1031062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031074,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031062\/revisions\/1031074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}