{"id":964169,"date":"2025-09-25T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964169"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:15:55","slug":"whatsapp-twitch-among-sites-that-could-face-australia-under-16s-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/whatsapp-twitch-among-sites-that-could-face-australia-under-16s-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Twitch among sites that could face Australia under-16s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies, including WhatsApp and Reddit as well as streaming giant Twitch and gaming firm Roblox, could be among more than a dozen sites added to Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under-16s, the country&#8217;s regulator said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube were already included in the ban \u2014 a world-first.<\/p>\n<p>But the head of Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has written to 16 more companies to &#8220;self-assess&#8221; whether they fall under the ban&#8217;s remit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies, including WhatsApp and Reddit as well as streaming giant Twitch and gaming firm Roblox, could be among more than a dozen sites added to Australia&#8217;s social media ban for under-16s, the country&#8217;s regulator said Wednesday. Platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube were already included in the ban \u2014 a world-first. But the head of Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has written to 16 more companies to &#8220;self-assess&#8221; whether they fall under the ban&#8217;s remit.<\/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-964169","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\/964169","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=964169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}