{"id":60692,"date":"2025-04-04T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=60692"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T09:10:46","slug":"supreme-court-declines-plea-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/supreme-court-declines-plea-to-ban-social-media-for-children-under-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Declines Plea to Ban Social Media for Children Under 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"307\">The <strong data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"98\">Supreme Court<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"112\">Friday<\/strong> refused to entertain a petition seeking a <strong data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"172\">statutory ban<\/strong> on social media usage for children below 13 years, stating that it is a <strong data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"262\">policy matter<\/strong> and should be addressed by <strong data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"304\">Parliament<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"467\">A <strong data-start=\"311\" data-end=\"370\">bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Augustine George Masih<\/strong> told the petitioner\u2019s counsel, <em data-start=\"402\" data-end=\"465\">\u201cIt is a policy matter. You ask Parliament to enact the law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"698\">While <strong data-start=\"475\" data-end=\"500\">disposing of the plea<\/strong>, the court granted the petitioner <strong data-start=\"535\" data-end=\"590\">liberty to make a representation to the authorities<\/strong>, directing that if such a request is made, it should be <strong data-start=\"647\" data-end=\"680\">considered within eight weeks<\/strong> as per the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"700\" data-end=\"1051\">The petition, filed by <strong data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"741\">Zep Foundation<\/strong> through advocate <strong data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"775\">Mohini Priya<\/strong>, urged the <strong data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"797\">Centre<\/strong> to implement a <strong data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"847\">strict age verification system<\/strong>, such as <strong data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"885\">biometric authentication<\/strong>, to regulate children\u2019s access to social media. It also sought <strong data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"969\">strict penalties<\/strong> for social media platforms failing to comply with child protection regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1229\">The <strong data-start=\"1057\" data-end=\"1077\">court\u2019s decision<\/strong> reinforces the stance that issues related to digital regulations should be <strong data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1194\">formulated through legislative policy<\/strong> rather than judicial intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a petition seeking a statutory ban on social media usage for children below 13 years, stating that it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60692","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-kashmir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60694,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60692\/revisions\/60694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}