{"id":978944,"date":"2025-12-08T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978944"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:04:11","slug":"what-to-know-about-australias-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/08\/what-to-know-about-australias-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Australia&#8217;s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are an estimated 440,000 young Australian teens, ages 13 to 15, on Snapchat. On Instagram, 350,000 in that age group are active users, and on TikTok, 200,000. Even Facebook &#8212; not exactly squarely in the Gen Alpha zeitgeist &#8212; reportedly has 150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Come Wednesday, those numbers are supposed to drastically change under a landmark law that will require users in Australia to be at least 16 to have accounts on those platforms and other social media services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are an estimated 440,000 young Australian teens, ages 13 to 15, on Snapchat. On Instagram, 350,000 in that age group are active users, and on TikTok, 200,000. Even Facebook &#8212; not exactly squarely in the Gen Alpha zeitgeist &#8212; reportedly has 150,000. Come Wednesday, those numbers are supposed to drastically change under a landmark law that will require users in Australia to be at least 16 to have accounts on those platforms and other social media services.<\/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-978944","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\/978944","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=978944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}