{"id":39274,"date":"2025-08-02T05:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39274\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:41:17","slug":"australia-leading-the-world-in-social-media-age-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/39274\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia \u2018leading the world\u2019 in social media age restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Howard government minister Peter McGauran has backed the Albanese government\u2019s policy of imposing a social media ban for users under the age of 16. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia is leading the world in this. It\u2019s still very controversial and the social media companies, Google and Meta, are fighting back,\u201d Mr McGauran told Sky News Australia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more that Prime Minister Albanese and Australia can enlist other countries by educating them and informing them as to what we are doing, the better.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Howard government minister Peter McGauran has backed the Albanese government\u2019s policy of imposing a social media ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,29310,29308,44,84,29309],"class_list":{"0":"post-39274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fb","11":"tag-msn","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-yt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}