{"id":987997,"date":"2026-01-27T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987997"},"modified":"2026-01-27T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:52:56","slug":"goa-government-likely-to-ban-social-media-use-for-children-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/goa-government-likely-to-ban-social-media-use-for-children-under-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa government likely to ban social media use for children under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT Minister Rohan Khaunte said on Monday that the Goa government is studying the possibility of introducing a ban on social media use for children below the age of 16, citing growing concerns over the impact of excessive screen time on children. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia has brought in a law ensuring a ban on social media for children below the age of 16. It is something they have already done. Our [IT] department, our people have already pulled out those particular papers. We are studying them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT Minister Rohan Khaunte said on Monday that the Goa government is studying the possibility of introducing a ban on social media use for children below the age of 16, citing growing concerns over the impact of excessive screen time on children. \u201cAustralia has brought in a law ensuring a ban on social media for children below the age of 16. It is something they have already done. Our [IT] department, our people have already pulled out those particular papers. We are studying them.<\/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-987997","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\/987997","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=987997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}