{"id":30277,"date":"2026-03-07T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=30277"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:24:04","slug":"article70710597-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=30277","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka social media ban: State proposes to ban social media for children under 16 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes after Australia blocked social media, including TikTok, Alphabet\u2019s YouTube and Meta\u2019s Instagram and Facebook, for teens since last December<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/karnataka-proposes-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-16-years\/article70710597.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes after Australia blocked social media, including TikTok, Alphabet\u2019s YouTube and Meta\u2019s Instagram and Facebook, for teens since last December Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice. Healthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[13665,4256,12753,1965,15581,14747,11822,10490],"class_list":["post-30277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-ban","tag-children","tag-karnataka","tag-media","tag-proposes","tag-social","tag-state","tag-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30279,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions\/30279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}