{"id":979668,"date":"2025-12-11T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979668"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:12:25","slug":"australias-teen-social-media-ban-takes-effect-under-16s-feel-left-out-platforms-face-33-million-fine-for-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/australias-teen-social-media-ban-takes-effect-under-16s-feel-left-out-platforms-face-33-million-fine-for-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s teen social media ban takes effect\u2014 under-16s feel left out, platforms face $33 million fine for violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s ban on social media for users under the age of 16 has taken effect, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts. Several teens were reportedly \u2018distressed\u2019 and also claimed it was a \u2018pretty bad idea\u2019 as they adjusted to a life without social media, including Snapchat, X and Instagram, among 10 other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to $33 million, according to a report by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s ban on social media for users under the age of 16 has taken effect, causing millions of children and teenagers to lose access to their accounts. Several teens were reportedly \u2018distressed\u2019 and also claimed it was a \u2018pretty bad idea\u2019 as they adjusted to a life without social media, including Snapchat, X and Instagram, among 10 other platforms. Social media platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to $33 million, according to a report by Reuters.<\/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-979668","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\/979668","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=979668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}