{"id":1008286,"date":"2026-05-16T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008286"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T07:00:25","slug":"delhi-hc-asks-google-apple-to-act-against-obscene-content-on-mobile-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/delhi-hc-asks-google-apple-to-act-against-obscene-content-on-mobile-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC asks Google, Apple to act against obscene content on mobile apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Google and Apple to strictly act against the dissemination of obscene pornographic content through mobile applications hosted on their online platforms, remarking that it cannot permit an entire generation to be &#8220;ruined&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said in the present legal framework, the social media intermediaries have to play the &#8220;most vital role&#8221; and they should act against the dissemination of pornographic content not only upon receiving a complaint but even at the time of uploading by exercising due diligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Google and Apple to strictly act against the dissemination of obscene pornographic content through mobile applications hosted on their online platforms, remarking that it cannot permit an entire generation to be &#8220;ruined&#8221;. A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said in the present legal framework, the social media intermediaries have to play the &#8220;most vital role&#8221; and they should act against the dissemination of pornographic content not only upon receiving a complaint but even at the time of uploading by exercising due diligence.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008286","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=1008286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}