{"id":988331,"date":"2026-01-28T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988331"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:38:38","slug":"french-lawmakers-pass-bill-banning-social-media-for-under-15s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/french-lawmakers-pass-bill-banning-social-media-for-under-15s\/","title":{"rendered":"French lawmakers pass bill banning social media for under-15s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: French lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.<\/p>\n<p>The lower National Assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a lengthy overnight session from Monday to Tuesday. It will now go to the Senate, France&#8217;s upper house, ahead of becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>Macron hailed the vote as a &#8220;major step&#8221; to protect French children and teenagers in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: French lawmakers have passed a bill that would ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. The lower National Assembly adopted the text by a vote of 130 to 21 in a lengthy overnight session from Monday to Tuesday. It will now go to the Senate, France&#8217;s upper house, ahead of becoming law. Macron hailed the vote as a &#8220;major step&#8221; to protect French children and teenagers in a post on X.<\/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-988331","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\/988331","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=988331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}