{"id":976426,"date":"2025-11-25T10:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976426"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:23:21","slug":"malaysian-government-to-implement-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/malaysian-government-to-implement-social-media-ban-for-under-16s-from-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian government to implement social media ban for under-16s from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government is preparing to prohibit social media access for individuals under the age of 16 years of age starting in 2026. This move aligns the nation with Australia and an increasing number of countries that are seeking to impose stricter digital age restrictions for children, reported news agency The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Communications, Fahmi Fadzil, announced on Sunday that the Cabinet has given its approval for the measure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian government is preparing to prohibit social media access for individuals under the age of 16 years of age starting in 2026. This move aligns the nation with Australia and an increasing number of countries that are seeking to impose stricter digital age restrictions for children, reported news agency The Associated Press. The Minister of Communications, Fahmi Fadzil, announced on Sunday that the Cabinet has given its approval for the measure.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976426","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=976426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}