{"id":1002543,"date":"2026-04-11T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002543"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:09:24","slug":"cloud-on-x-3rd-party-shield-govt-tells-delhi-hc-platform-may-lose-immunity-in-ayyub-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/cloud-on-x-3rd-party-shield-govt-tells-delhi-hc-platform-may-lose-immunity-in-ayyub-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud on X 3rd party shield: Govt tells Delhi HC platform may lose immunity in Ayyub case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X may lose its \u201csafe harbour\u201d protection in India against liability for user-generated content for failing to act against journalist Rana Ayyub for her allegedly derogatory and communally sensitive posts, the Centre informed Delhi High Court on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>In an affidavit filed before the high court, the Centre and the Delhi police said X had failed to remove the alleged derogatory content despite having actual knowledge by way of a judicial order and statutory notices issued by the law-enforcement agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X may lose its \u201csafe harbour\u201d protection in India against liability for user-generated content for failing to act against journalist Rana Ayyub for her allegedly derogatory and communally sensitive posts, the Centre informed Delhi High Court on Friday. In an affidavit filed before the high court, the Centre and the Delhi police said X had failed to remove the alleged derogatory content despite having actual knowledge by way of a judicial order and statutory notices issued by the law-enforcement agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}