{"id":1015237,"date":"2026-06-17T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015237"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:03:34","slug":"telegram-opposes-temporary-ban-in-india-you-should-also-shut-down-malls-close-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/telegram-opposes-temporary-ban-in-india-you-should-also-shut-down-malls-close-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram opposes temporary ban in India: \u2018You should also shut down malls, close roads\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official X account of Telegram has publicly opposed the central government\u2019s decision to temporarily block the app, comparing the move to shutting down shopping malls because of a theft or closing roads because someone was speeding.<\/p>\n<p>Messaging app Telegram has been blocked in India till June 22, with the government saying that it has been used to &#8220;defraud candidates&#8221; taking the national medical entrance examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official X account of Telegram has publicly opposed the central government\u2019s decision to temporarily block the app, comparing the move to shutting down shopping malls because of a theft or closing roads because someone was speeding. Messaging app Telegram has been blocked in India till June 22, with the government saying that it has been used to &#8220;defraud candidates&#8221; taking the national medical entrance examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015237","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015238,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015237\/revisions\/1015238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}