{"id":1015124,"date":"2026-06-17T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015124"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:50:49","slug":"students-will-suffer-paper-leak-rackets-wont-telegram-ceo-internet-freedom-foundation-slam-app-axe-for-neet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/students-will-suffer-paper-leak-rackets-wont-telegram-ceo-internet-freedom-foundation-slam-app-axe-for-neet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Students will suffer, paper leak rackets won\u2019t\u2019: Telegram CEO, Internet Freedom Foundation slam app axe for NEET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Freedom Foundation on Tuesday termed the Centre&#8217;s temporary block on the messaging app Telegram a &#8220;band-aid&#8221; solution to exam fraud, arguing that the move is both constitutionally questionable and contradicted by the government&#8217;s explanation for the restriction. <\/p>\n<p>The criticism was echoed by Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who said the ban had merely &#8220;punished&#8221; over 150 million ordinary users in India while failing to stop the spread of leaked material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Freedom Foundation on Tuesday termed the Centre&#8217;s temporary block on the messaging app Telegram a &#8220;band-aid&#8221; solution to exam fraud, arguing that the move is both constitutionally questionable and contradicted by the government&#8217;s explanation for the restriction. The criticism was echoed by Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who said the ban had merely &#8220;punished&#8221; over 150 million ordinary users in India while failing to stop the spread of leaked material.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015124","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=1015124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015138,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015124\/revisions\/1015138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}