{"id":980188,"date":"2025-12-13T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980188"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:03:14","slug":"reddit-sues-to-block-australias-new-under-16-social-media-ban-citing-rights-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/13\/reddit-sues-to-block-australias-new-under-16-social-media-ban-citing-rights-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit sues to block Australia\u2019s new under-16 social media ban citing rights concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit, the internet message board site, said on Friday that it had filed a lawsuit in Australia\u2019s highest court seeking to block the country\u2019s new law banning social media accounts for children under 16, contending it infringes on children\u2019s rights to political communication. <\/p>\n<p>The case, along with an earlier lawsuit filed by two teenagers, sets the stage for the High Court of Australia to weigh in on some of the questions that have shrouded the legislation ever since it was first passed a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reddit, the internet message board site, said on Friday that it had filed a lawsuit in Australia\u2019s highest court seeking to block the country\u2019s new law banning social media accounts for children under 16, contending it infringes on children\u2019s rights to political communication. The case, along with an earlier lawsuit filed by two teenagers, sets the stage for the High Court of Australia to weigh in on some of the questions that have shrouded the legislation ever since it was first passed a year ago.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980188","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=980188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}