{"id":18149,"date":"2024-11-30T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-australians-think-of-the-under-16-social-media-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:30:03","slug":"what-australians-think-of-the-under-16-social-media-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/what-australians-think-of-the-under-16-social-media-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"What Australians think of the under-16 social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">People on the streets of Sydney reacted with mixed feelings to a new law which will ban children under 16 in Australia from using social media. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Some said it was a &#8220;great idea&#8221; while others suggested responsibility for children&#8217;s social media use should rest with parents. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The ban could see tech companies fined up to A$50m ($32.5m; \u00a325.7m) if they don&#8217;t comply. The law will not take effect for at least 12 months.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c8rl74nrjmpo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on the streets of Sydney reacted with mixed feelings to a new law which will ban children under 16 in Australia from using social media. Some said it was a &#8220;great idea&#8221; while others suggested responsibility for children&#8217;s social media use should rest with parents. The ban could see tech companies fined up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1510,546,2640,153,7151],"class_list":["post-18149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australians","tag-ban","tag-media","tag-social","tag-under16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18151,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions\/18151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}