{"id":67842,"date":"2024-11-29T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=67842"},"modified":"2024-11-29T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:27:49","slug":"australia-bans-social-media-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/11\/29\/australia-bans-social-media-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia bans social media for under-16s"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/d8b1\/live\/2053a720-ad8a-11ef-b5ea-8ffd11b52c7b.jpg\" alt=\"A girl sits with a blue phone in front of her face\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Children under the age of 16 in Australia will be banned from using social media, after the Australian government passed a new law on Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cp9zdydy78mo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children under the age of 16 in Australia will be banned from using social media, after the Australian government passed a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/teen-phone-addiction.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67843,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67842\/revisions\/67843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}