{"id":1025262,"date":"2026-07-31T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025262"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:57:22","slug":"officials-confused-about-who-can-ban-whom-telegram-ceo-durov-hits-back-after-russia-charges-him-with-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/officials-confused-about-who-can-ban-whom-telegram-ceo-durov-hits-back-after-russia-charges-him-with-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials confused about who can ban whom: Telegram CEO Durov hits back after Russia charges him with terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow [Russia], July 31 (ANI): Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Thursday slammed Russia&#8217;s recent decision to label him a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; after he refused to comply with state demands for mass censorship and surveillance on his platform. <\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement shared on X, Durov pointed out that he has been banned from &#8220;publishing information on the internet&#8221; under Russian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow [Russia], July 31 (ANI): Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Thursday slammed Russia&#8217;s recent decision to label him a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; after he refused to comply with state demands for mass censorship and surveillance on his platform. In a recent statement shared on X, Durov pointed out that he has been banned from &#8220;publishing information on the internet&#8221; under Russian law.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025262","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=1025262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025274,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025262\/revisions\/1025274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}