{"id":980176,"date":"2025-12-13T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980176"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:43:32","slug":"reddit-challenges-australias-world-first-law-banning-children-under-16-from-social-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/13\/reddit-challenges-australias-world-first-law-banning-children-under-16-from-social-media-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit challenges Australia&#8217;s world-first law banning children under 16 from social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia\u2019s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world\u2019s most popular social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>California-based Reddit Inc.\u2019s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project.<\/p>\n<p>Both suits claim the law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia\u2019s implied freedom of political communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia\u2019s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world\u2019s most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.\u2019s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Digital Freedom Project. Both suits claim the law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia\u2019s implied freedom of political communication.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980176","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=980176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}