{"id":999869,"date":"2026-03-28T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999869"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:39:47","slug":"austria-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/28\/austria-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria to ban social media for children under 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vienna: Austria on Thursday announced it will soon ban social media for children up to the age of 14, saying it spawned addiction, glorified violence, spread misinformation and set unrealistic beauty standards. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is almost impossible for parents to control their children&#8217;s consumption&#8221; on these platforms, which are designed to make them &#8220;deliberately dependent,&#8221; Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler told a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vienna: Austria on Thursday announced it will soon ban social media for children up to the age of 14, saying it spawned addiction, glorified violence, spread misinformation and set unrealistic beauty standards. &#8220;It is almost impossible for parents to control their children&#8217;s consumption&#8221; on these platforms, which are designed to make them &#8220;deliberately dependent,&#8221; Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler told a press conference.<\/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-999869","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\/999869","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=999869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}