{"id":50222,"date":"2025-12-12T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/australias-social-media-ban-launched-with-barely-a-hitch-but-the-real-test-is-still-to-come\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:04:42","slug":"australias-social-media-ban-launched-with-barely-a-hitch-but-the-real-test-is-still-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/australias-social-media-ban-launched-with-barely-a-hitch-but-the-real-test-is-still-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s social media ban launched with barely a hitch \u2013 but the real test is still to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The policy to cut off social media access for more than 2 million under-16s remains popular with Australians, while other countries look to follow suit<\/p>\n<p>On the lawns of the prime minister\u2019s Kirribilli residence in Sydney, overlooking the harbour, Anthony Albanese said he had never been prouder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a day in which my pride to be prime minister of Australia has never been greater. This is world-leading. This is Australia showing enough is enough,\u201d he said as the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/10\/australia-social-media-ban-platforms-still-allowing-children-teens-create-accounts-reddit-youtube\">under-16s social media ban<\/a> came into effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/12\/australia-teen-social-media-ban-launch-test-to-come\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The policy to cut off social media access for more than 2 million under-16s remains popular with Australians, while other countries look to follow suit On the lawns of the prime minister\u2019s Kirribilli residence in Sydney, overlooking the harbour, Anthony Albanese said he had never been prouder. \u201cThis is a day in which my pride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}