{"id":1034049,"date":"2026-09-09T07:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034049"},"modified":"2026-09-09T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:34:56","slug":"dont-ban-children-from-social-media-estonia-tells-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/09\/dont-ban-children-from-social-media-estonia-tells-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t ban children from social media, Estonia tells EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union should make social media platforms change instead of banning children from using the apps, Estonia&#8217;s digital minister told AFP Monday, just over a week before the EU is due to announce an age limit. <\/p>\n<p>Estonia has been a lone voice in opposing the EU&#8217;s plans to restrict children&#8217;s access to social media, instead calling for online platforms to change. <\/p>\n<p>EU chief Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce a social media ban on September 16, with officials saying an age limit of 13 or 15 is under discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union should make social media platforms change instead of banning children from using the apps, Estonia&#8217;s digital minister told AFP Monday, just over a week before the EU is due to announce an age limit. Estonia has been a lone voice in opposing the EU&#8217;s plans to restrict children&#8217;s access to social media, instead calling for online platforms to change. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen is expected to announce a social media ban on September 16, with officials saying an age limit of 13 or 15 is under discussion.<\/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-1034049","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\/1034049","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=1034049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034067,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034049\/revisions\/1034067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}