{"id":988135,"date":"2026-01-28T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988135"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:52:37","slug":"goa-weighs-social-media-ban-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/goa-weighs-social-media-ban-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Goa weighs social media ban for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s \u200dtop tourist state of Goa is \u200bconsidering a social media ban for children similar to one \u2060implemented in Australia, as concerns grow over mental health risks in a nation with more than a billion internet users. <\/p>\n<p>Among the top markets for tech giants such as Meta, Google&#8217;s \u200cYouTube and X, \u200cIndia is thought to have many users aged under 18 but has imposed no national curbs \u200con social media and there are no indications the federal government plans to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s \u200dtop tourist state of Goa is \u200bconsidering a social media ban for children similar to one \u2060implemented in Australia, as concerns grow over mental health risks in a nation with more than a billion internet users. Among the top markets for tech giants such as Meta, Google&#8217;s \u200cYouTube and X, \u200cIndia is thought to have many users aged under 18 but has imposed no national curbs \u200con social media and there are no indications the federal government plans to do so.<\/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-988135","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\/988135","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=988135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}