{"id":361990,"date":"2026-06-15T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361990\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:05:12","slug":"vote-do-you-think-there-should-be-a-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/361990\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Do you think there should be a social media ban for children under 16 in the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think there should be a social media ban for children under 16 in the U.S.? Vote in the poll above or <a href=\"http:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vote-do-you-think-there-should-be-a-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-in-the-us-question-of-the-day-united-kingdom-starmer-australia-united-states-congress-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK is the latest to announce it plans to ban social media for children under 16, joining Canada. Australia has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/fact-check-team\/fact-check-team-australia-age-ban-on-social-media-sparks-debate-over-child-safety#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">implemented a ban<\/a>, and there are some questions about its effectiveness. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Also, the U.S. Congress has been working on various bills to address the issue of kids and social media, but nothing has been signed into law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you think there should be a social media ban for children under 16 in the U.S.? Vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-361990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}