{"id":1036168,"date":"2026-09-17T08:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036168"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:20:48","slug":"delhi-hc-asks-govt-if-it-is-contemplating-policy-to-regulate-addiction-causing-features-on-social-media-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/17\/delhi-hc-asks-govt-if-it-is-contemplating-policy-to-regulate-addiction-causing-features-on-social-media-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC asks govt if it is contemplating policy to regulate addiction causing features on social media apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond whether it was contemplating a policy to regulate addiction-causing design features on social media platforms like infinite scroll and autoplay. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Amit Sharma said it would hear after three weeks a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking constitution of an expert committee to examine engagement-maximising and addiction-causing design features on social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond whether it was contemplating a policy to regulate addiction-causing design features on social media platforms like infinite scroll and autoplay. A bench of Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Amit Sharma said it would hear after three weeks a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking constitution of an expert committee to examine engagement-maximising and addiction-causing design features on social media platforms.<\/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-1036168","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\/1036168","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=1036168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036188,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036168\/revisions\/1036188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}