{"id":979392,"date":"2025-12-10T09:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979392"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:48:06","slug":"australia-begins-enforcing-world-first-teen-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/10\/australia-begins-enforcing-world-first-teen-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia on Wednesday became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet&#8217;s YouTube and Meta&#8217;s Instagram and Facebook. Ten of the biggest platforms were ordered to block children from midnight (1300 GMT on Tuesday) or face fines of up to A$49.5 million ($33 million) under the new law, which drew criticism from major technology companies and free speech advocates, but was welcomed by many parents and child advocates. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it &#8220;a proud day&#8221; for families and cast the law as proof that policymakers can curb online harms that have outpaced traditional safeguards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia on Wednesday became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, Alphabet&#8217;s YouTube and Meta&#8217;s Instagram and Facebook. Ten of the biggest platforms were ordered to block children from midnight (1300 GMT on Tuesday) or face fines of up to A$49.5 million ($33 million) under the new law, which drew criticism from major technology companies and free speech advocates, but was welcomed by many parents and child advocates. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it &#8220;a proud day&#8221; for families and cast the law as proof that policymakers can curb online [&hellip;]<\/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-979392","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\/979392","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=979392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}