{"id":985612,"date":"2026-01-16T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985612"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:26:28","slug":"social-media-sites-block-4-7-million-underage-accounts-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/social-media-sites-block-4-7-million-underage-accounts-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media sites block 4.7 million underage accounts in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants have blocked 4.7 million accounts under Australia&#8217;s world-first social media ban for under-16s, the country&#8217;s online safety watchdog said Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Initial figures showed platforms were taking meaningful action to remove underage users, Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that eSafety&#8217;s regulatory guidance and engagement with platforms is already delivering significant outcomes,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants have blocked 4.7 million accounts under Australia&#8217;s world-first social media ban for under-16s, the country&#8217;s online safety watchdog said Friday. Initial figures showed platforms were taking meaningful action to remove underage users, Australia&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said. &#8220;It is clear that eSafety&#8217;s regulatory guidance and engagement with platforms is already delivering significant outcomes,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/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-985612","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\/985612","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=985612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}