{"id":988666,"date":"2026-01-30T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988666"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:14:17","slug":"india-should-consider-age-based-curbs-on-social-media-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/india-should-consider-age-based-curbs-on-social-media-adviser-says\/","title":{"rendered":"India should consider age-based curbs on social media, adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s chief economic adviser proposed age-based limits on access to social media platforms he said were &#8220;predatory&#8221; in their approach to keeping users online, signalling a potential blow to Meta and YouTube in their largest user market. <\/p>\n<p>Such a shift would pull India in line with a growing global trend, after Australia became the first \u200cnation last year to \u200cban social media for children younger than 16. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, France&#8217;s National Assembly backed legislation to ban children under 15 from social media and Britain, Denmark and Greece are studying the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India&#8217;s chief economic adviser proposed age-based limits on access to social media platforms he said were &#8220;predatory&#8221; in their approach to keeping users online, signalling a potential blow to Meta and YouTube in their largest user market. Such a shift would pull India in line with a growing global trend, after Australia became the first \u200cnation last year to \u200cban social media for children younger than 16. On Monday, France&#8217;s National Assembly backed legislation to ban children under 15 from social media and Britain, Denmark and Greece are studying the issue.<\/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-988666","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\/988666","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=988666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}