{"id":999290,"date":"2026-03-25T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999290"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:34:16","slug":"britain-pilots-social-media-bans-time-limits-and-curfews-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/britain-pilots-social-media-bans-time-limits-and-curfews-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain pilots social media bans, time limits and curfews for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of British families will test social media bans, curfews and app time limits to see how they impact children&#8217;s sleep, family life and schoolwork, the government said. <\/p>\n<p>Britain, like other \u200cgovernments, is \u2060considering \u2060restricting access to social media for children. Nothing \u200bis off the table, it has said, including following \u200bAustralia in a complete ban for under-16s. <\/p>\n<p>Experts have said there is no clear evidence \u200bthat a ban would be \u2060effective, while \u200ca group of young people \u200bin \u200bLondon recently told Reuters they were \u2060opposed to restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of British families will test social media bans, curfews and app time limits to see how they impact children&#8217;s sleep, family life and schoolwork, the government said. Britain, like other \u200cgovernments, is \u2060considering \u2060restricting access to social media for children. Nothing \u200bis off the table, it has said, including following \u200bAustralia in a complete ban for under-16s. Experts have said there is no clear evidence \u200bthat a ban would be \u2060effective, while \u200ca group of young people \u200bin \u200bLondon recently told Reuters they were \u2060opposed to restrictions.<\/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-999290","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\/999290","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=999290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}