{"id":989235,"date":"2026-02-02T08:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989235"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:28:28","slug":"karnataka-mulls-ban-on-social-media-for-kids-below-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/karnataka-mulls-ban-on-social-media-for-kids-below-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka mulls ban on social media for kids below 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka government is planning to ban social media for children below the age of 16, taking a lead from Australia and Goa. <\/p>\n<p>RDPR and IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge informed the Assembly on Friday that the government is mulling over the plan. Responding to senior BJP leader and MLA S Suresh Kumar, who expressed concern over the abuse of social media, Kharge admitted that it is a serious issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka government is planning to ban social media for children below the age of 16, taking a lead from Australia and Goa. RDPR and IT-BT Minister Priyank Kharge informed the Assembly on Friday that the government is mulling over the plan. Responding to senior BJP leader and MLA S Suresh Kumar, who expressed concern over the abuse of social media, Kharge admitted that it is a serious 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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989235","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\/989235","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=989235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}