{"id":996828,"date":"2026-03-07T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996828"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:58:04","slug":"regulate-dont-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/regulate-dont-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulate, don\u2019t ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka\u2019s proposal to bar children under the age of 16 from accessing social media reflects a rising global anxiety about the impact of digital platforms on young users. Concerns about addiction, cyberbullying, and mental health are legitimate. Yet converting these anxieties into a sweeping legal prohibition risks producing a law that is hasty, difficult to enforce,  and potentially intrusive. Policy-making in this complex space demands careful design; blanket bans rarely provide it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka\u2019s proposal to bar children under the age of 16 from accessing social media reflects a rising global anxiety about the impact of digital platforms on young users. Concerns about addiction, cyberbullying, and mental health are legitimate. Yet converting these anxieties into a sweeping legal prohibition risks producing a law that is hasty, difficult to enforce, and potentially intrusive. Policy-making in this complex space demands careful design; blanket bans rarely provide it.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996828","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=996828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}