{"id":1044257,"date":"2026-10-17T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044257"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:10:13","slug":"supreme-court-seeks-centres-reply-on-social-media-curbs-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/17\/supreme-court-seeks-centres-reply-on-social-media-curbs-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court seeks Centre&#8217;s reply on social media curbs for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre&#8217;s response to a public interest litigation seeking an enforceable regulatory framework to protect children from the risks associated with social media, including cyberbullying, sexual exploitation and exposure to harmful content. <\/p>\n<p>The petition, filed by Emerald Heights International School, Indore, and its director Siddharth Singh, seeks comprehensive safeguards for children using social media platforms. It argues that protecting minors from online harms is a constitutional obligation of the state and cannot be left solely to parental supervision or voluntary measures adopted by technology companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre&#8217;s response to a public interest litigation seeking an enforceable regulatory framework to protect children from the risks associated with social media, including cyberbullying, sexual exploitation and exposure to harmful content. The petition, filed by Emerald Heights International School, Indore, and its director Siddharth Singh, seeks comprehensive safeguards for children using social media platforms. It argues that protecting minors from online harms is a constitutional obligation of the state and cannot be left solely to parental supervision or voluntary measures adopted by technology companies.<\/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-1044257","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\/1044257","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=1044257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044279,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044257\/revisions\/1044279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}