{"id":1034623,"date":"2026-09-12T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034623"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T02:38:16","slug":"california-governor-signs-law-to-limit-childrens-social-media-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/california-governor-signs-law-to-limit-childrens-social-media-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"California governor signs law to limit children&#8217;s social media risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen new laws on Thursday that address various aspects of children&#8217;s safety online, including one that prohibits social media companies from serving addictive features to users under 16 years old. <\/p>\n<p>During a signing ceremony held near San Francisco, Newsom described the state&#8217;s new social media restrictions for children as &#8220;better&#8221; than Australia&#8217;s ban for all users under 16. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is different than what Australia did,&#8221; Newsom said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen new laws on Thursday that address various aspects of children&#8217;s safety online, including one that prohibits social media companies from serving addictive features to users under 16 years old. During a signing ceremony held near San Francisco, Newsom described the state&#8217;s new social media restrictions for children as &#8220;better&#8221; than Australia&#8217;s ban for all users under 16. &#8220;This is different than what Australia did,&#8221; Newsom said.<\/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-1034623","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\/1034623","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=1034623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034658,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034623\/revisions\/1034658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}