{"id":999868,"date":"2026-03-28T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999868"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:38:58","slug":"austria-plans-to-ban-social-media-use-for-under-14s-joining-a-string-of-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/austria-plans-to-ban-social-media-use-for-under-14s-joining-a-string-of-other-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria plans to ban social media use for under-14s, joining a string of other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA: Austria&#8217;s governing coalition on Friday announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14, joining a string of other countries in drawing up restrictions for young people. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander Pr\u00f6ll, the official in Chancellor Christian Stocker&#8217;s office responsible for digitization, said that draft legislation will be drawn up by the end of June. He said that \u201ctechnically modern methods\u201d of age verification will be used that allow users to verify their age while respecting their privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA: Austria&#8217;s governing coalition on Friday announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14, joining a string of other countries in drawing up restrictions for young people. Alexander Pr\u00f6ll, the official in Chancellor Christian Stocker&#8217;s office responsible for digitization, said that draft legislation will be drawn up by the end of June. He said that \u201ctechnically modern methods\u201d of age verification will be used that allow users to verify their age while respecting their privacy.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999868","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=999868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}