{"id":996869,"date":"2026-03-07T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996869"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:27:11","slug":"2-states-move-for-kid-social-site-curbs-amid-mental-health-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/2-states-move-for-kid-social-site-curbs-amid-mental-health-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"2 states move for kid social site curbs amid mental health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka \u2014 home to Bengaluru, India\u2019s Silicon Valley \u2014 proposes to ban social media use for children under 16 while neighbouring Andhra Pradesh plans to restrict access for children aged below 13. <\/p>\n<p>A child rights expert, however, said such bans were difficult to enforce or monitor and suggested that self-regulation, based on awareness among children and their parents, works better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka \u2014 home to Bengaluru, India\u2019s Silicon Valley \u2014 proposes to ban social media use for children under 16 while neighbouring Andhra Pradesh plans to restrict access for children aged below 13. A child rights expert, however, said such bans were difficult to enforce or monitor and suggested that self-regulation, based on awareness among children and their parents, works better.<\/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-996869","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\/996869","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=996869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}