{"id":988153,"date":"2026-01-28T08:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988153"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:56:23","slug":"france-has-right-to-ban-social-media-for-under-15s-eu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/france-has-right-to-ban-social-media-for-under-15s-eu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"France has right to ban social media for under-15s, EU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France has the right to ban social media for under-15s as proposed in a bill passed by its lower house of parliament, though enforcement would lie with the EU, the European Commission said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The French authorities have the right to establish a digital age for their citizens,&#8221; commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters, adding that online giants had an &#8220;obligation&#8221; to &#8220;respect the national legislation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has the right to ban social media for under-15s as proposed in a bill passed by its lower house of parliament, though enforcement would lie with the EU, the European Commission said Tuesday. &#8220;The French authorities have the right to establish a digital age for their citizens,&#8221; commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told reporters, adding that online giants had an &#8220;obligation&#8221; to &#8220;respect the national legislation&#8221;.<\/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-988153","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\/988153","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=988153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}