{"id":986768,"date":"2026-01-21T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986768"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:40:28","slug":"no-option-off-the-table-as-uk-mulls-social-media-ban-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/no-option-off-the-table-as-uk-mulls-social-media-ban-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"No option &#8216;off the table&#8217; as UK mulls social media ban for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will consider tightening rules on children&#8217;s use of social media \u200dwith no option &#8220;off the table,&#8221; Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that they risked being pulled into &#8220;a world \u2060of endless scrolling, anxiety and comparison.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Starmer said his Labour government was prepared to take &#8220;robust action&#8221;, a day after it said it would examine whether features such as infinite scrolling and the age at which children can access platforms should be restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will consider tightening rules on children&#8217;s use of social media \u200dwith no option &#8220;off the table,&#8221; Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that they risked being pulled into &#8220;a world \u2060of endless scrolling, anxiety and comparison.&#8221; Starmer said his Labour government was prepared to take &#8220;robust action&#8221;, a day after it said it would examine whether features such as infinite scrolling and the age at which children can access platforms should be restricted.<\/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-986768","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\/986768","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=986768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}