{"id":967605,"date":"2025-10-14T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=967605"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:50:03","slug":"google-says-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-extremely-difficult-to-enforce-wont-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/14\/google-says-australias-under-16-social-media-ban-extremely-difficult-to-enforce-wont-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says Australia&#8217;s under-16 social media ban &#8216;extremely difficult&#8217; to enforce, won&#8217;t make\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has said that it will be \u201cextremely difficult\u201d for Australia to enforce a law prohibiting people younger than 16 from using social media, warning that the government&#8217;s initiative will not make children safer online. Australia became the first country to prohibit under-16s from using social media in December, giving platforms until December 10 to deactivate underage accounts without requiring age verification.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s approach to age restrictions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has said that it will be \u201cextremely difficult\u201d for Australia to enforce a law prohibiting people younger than 16 from using social media, warning that the government&#8217;s initiative will not make children safer online. Australia became the first country to prohibit under-16s from using social media in December, giving platforms until December 10 to deactivate underage accounts without requiring age verification. Australia\u2019s approach to age restrictions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967605","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}