{"id":989623,"date":"2026-02-04T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989623"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:36:09","slug":"spain-to-ban-social-media-access-for-children-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/spain-to-ban-social-media-access-for-children-under-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain to ban social media access for children under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain will ban access to social media for \u200cminors \u200cunder 16 and platforms will be required to \u200cimplement age verification systems, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our \u200bchildren are exposed \u200bto a space they were \u200cnever meant \u200dto navigate alone&#8230; We \u200dwill no longer accept that,&#8221; Sanchez said. &#8220;We \u200cwill protect them from the digital Wild West.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He added that his government would also introduce a new bill next week to hold social \u200dmedia executives accountable for illegal and hateful content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain will ban access to social media for \u200cminors \u200cunder 16 and platforms will be required to \u200cimplement age verification systems, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai. &#8220;Our \u200bchildren are exposed \u200bto a space they were \u200cnever meant \u200dto navigate alone&#8230; We \u200dwill no longer accept that,&#8221; Sanchez said. &#8220;We \u200cwill protect them from the digital Wild West.&#8221; He added that his government would also introduce a new bill next week to hold social \u200dmedia executives accountable for illegal and hateful content.<\/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-989623","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\/989623","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=989623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}