{"id":956853,"date":"2025-08-23T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956853"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:43:53","slug":"social-media-laws-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/social-media-laws-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media laws for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has officially added YouTube to the list of platforms covered by its world-first legislation that restricts access to social media for users under the age of 16. This move is part of a broader initiative to delay access to social media in order to protect young Australians during a critical stage in their emotional and psychological development. <\/p>\n<p>Initially, YouTube had been exempted when the legislation was passed in November 2023. However, this exemption has now been reversed following a formal recommendation by the national internet regulator. The eSafety Commissioner had urged the government to reconsider, pointing to findings from a national survey which revealed that 37 per cent of minors reported exposure to harmful content on YouTube &#8211; a higher rate than any other social media platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian government has officially added YouTube to the list of platforms covered by its world-first legislation that restricts access to social media for users under the age of 16. This move is part of a broader initiative to delay access to social media in order to protect young Australians during a critical stage in their emotional and psychological development. Initially, YouTube had been exempted when the legislation was passed in November 2023. However, this exemption has now been reversed following a formal recommendation by the national internet regulator. The eSafety Commissioner had urged the government to reconsider, pointing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazinenews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956853","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}