{"id":11332,"date":"2025-12-12T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/call-for-canada-and-the-united-states-to-impose-a-social-media-ban-on-those-under-16\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:31:09","slug":"call-for-canada-and-the-united-states-to-impose-a-social-media-ban-on-those-under-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/call-for-canada-and-the-united-states-to-impose-a-social-media-ban-on-those-under-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Canada and the United States to impose a social media ban on those under 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_24cfeba8df340600\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p>Australia imposes a ban on social media use for those under 16<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government announced its decision to impose a complete ban on the use of social media networks for all children and adolescents under the age of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the goal of this measure is to protect children from becoming victims of cyberbullying, limit their exposure to harmful content, and prevent them from being exposed to the risk of online predators.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reported that residents of Toronto and Washington D.C. in Canada and the United States questioned the feasibility of enacting such a ban in their countries.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Eloise Alana and Alex Foster<\/p>\n<p>United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p>An independent media platform that provides reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p>For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nznBtIbBmm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/\">Home<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Home&#8221; &#8212; \u0634\u0628\u0643\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u062d\u062f\u0629 \u2013 UNN \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629\" src=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/embed\/#?secret=cLYAzx2TNP#?secret=nznBtIbBmm\" data-secret=\"nznBtIbBmm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia imposes a ban on social media use for those under 16 The Australian government announced its decision to impose a complete ban on the use of social media networks for all children and adolescents under the age of 16. The government said the goal of this measure is to protect children from becoming victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}