{"id":987712,"date":"2026-01-26T09:21:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987712"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:48:56","slug":"brains-of-our-children-are-not-for-sale-france-moves-to-ban-children-under-15-from-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/brains-of-our-children-are-not-for-sale-france-moves-to-ban-children-under-15-from-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brains of our children are not for sale\u2019 France moves to ban children under 15 from social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has moved to accelerate legislation that would ban social media use for children under 15. The move was announced by French President Emanuel Macron in a boldly worded video statement early on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are banning social media for under-15s, and we are going to ban mobile phones in our high schools.\u201cI believe this is a clear rule. Clear for our teenagers, clear for families, clear for teachers, and we are moving forward,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has moved to accelerate legislation that would ban social media use for children under 15. The move was announced by French President Emanuel Macron in a boldly worded video statement early on Sunday morning. \u201cWe are banning social media for under-15s, and we are going to ban mobile phones in our high schools.\u201cI believe this is a clear rule. Clear for our teenagers, clear for families, clear for teachers, and we are moving forward,\u201d Macron said.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987712","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=987712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}