{"id":940023,"date":"2025-06-20T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940023"},"modified":"2025-06-20T09:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:19:46","slug":"social-media-ban-moves-closer-in-australia-after-tech-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/20\/social-media-ban-moves-closer-in-australia-after-tech-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media ban moves closer in Australia after tech trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking a user\u2019s age is technologically possible and can be integrated into existing services. <\/p>\n<p>The conclusions are a blow to Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok and Snap Inc., which opposed the controversial legislation. Some platform operators had questioned whether a user\u2019s age could be reliably established using current technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking a user\u2019s age is technologically possible and can be integrated into existing services. The conclusions are a blow to Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc., TikTok and Snap Inc., which opposed the controversial legislation. Some platform operators had questioned whether a user\u2019s age could be reliably established using current technology.<\/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-940023","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\/940023","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=940023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}