{"id":989249,"date":"2026-02-02T09:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989249"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:44:38","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-ally-proposes-bill-to-restrict-social-media-access-for-children-as-global-debate-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/pm-narendra-modi-ally-proposes-bill-to-restrict-social-media-access-for-children-as-global-debate-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi ally proposes bill to restrict social media access for children as global debate grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed a bill to ban social media for children, as the world&#8217;s biggest market for Meta and YouTube joins a global debate on the impact of social media on young people&#8217;s health and safety. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only are our children becoming addicted to social media, but India is also one of the world&#8217;s largest producers of data for foreign platforms,&#8221; lawmaker L.S.K. Devarayalu told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed a bill to ban social media for children, as the world&#8217;s biggest market for Meta and YouTube joins a global debate on the impact of social media on young people&#8217;s health and safety. &#8220;Not only are our children becoming addicted to social media, but India is also one of the world&#8217;s largest producers of data for foreign platforms,&#8221; lawmaker L.S.K. Devarayalu told Reuters on Friday.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989249","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=989249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}