{"id":988685,"date":"2026-01-30T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988685"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:43:54","slug":"india-should-consider-age-based-limits-for-social-media-chief-economic-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/india-should-consider-age-based-limits-for-social-media-chief-economic-adviser-says\/","title":{"rendered":"India should consider age-based limits for social media, chief economic adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s chief economic adviser called on the \u2060government to set age-based limits on access to social media apps to counter &#8220;digital addiction&#8221;, cautioning against use of platforms by children in \u200cthe largest user \u200cmarket for Meta and YouTube. <\/p>\n<p>A shift in India would align with \u200ca growing global trend. Australia last year became the first nation to enforce a social media ban for children under 16. <\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s National Assembly on Monday backed legislation to ban children \u200bunder 15 years old from \u200bsocial media and Britain, Denmark, Spain and Greece are \u200cstudying the \u200dissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s chief economic adviser called on the \u2060government to set age-based limits on access to social media apps to counter &#8220;digital addiction&#8221;, cautioning against use of platforms by children in \u200cthe largest user \u200cmarket for Meta and YouTube. A shift in India would align with \u200ca growing global trend. Australia last year became the first nation to enforce a social media ban for children under 16. France&#8217;s National Assembly on Monday backed legislation to ban children \u200bunder 15 years old from \u200bsocial media and Britain, Denmark, Spain and Greece are \u200cstudying the \u200dissue.<\/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-988685","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\/988685","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=988685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}