{"id":1040064,"date":"2026-10-01T09:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040064"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:18:55","slug":"government-denies-plans-to-curb-social-media-access-for-under-18s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/government-denies-plans-to-curb-social-media-access-for-under-18s\/","title":{"rendered":"Government denies plans to curb social media access for under-18s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union government on Wednesday denied reports that it was planning to impose curbs on social media access for people under 18, calling the reports \u201cfake\u201d and without any basis. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, there is no such proposal under consideration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertain media reports came up yesterday that govt is planning to put curbs on social media for under-18. These reports are fake and has no basis\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Union government on Wednesday denied reports that it was planning to impose curbs on social media access for people under 18, calling the reports \u201cfake\u201d and without any basis. According to sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, there is no such proposal under consideration. \u201cCertain media reports came up yesterday that govt is planning to put curbs on social media for under-18. These reports are fake and has no basis\u201d<\/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-1040064","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\/1040064","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=1040064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040074,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040064\/revisions\/1040074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}