{"id":1029683,"date":"2026-08-19T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029683"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:17:21","slug":"x-will-have-to-comply-with-indian-law-amid-musks-push-for-takedown-transparency-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/x-will-have-to-comply-with-indian-law-amid-musks-push-for-takedown-transparency-official\/","title":{"rendered":"X will have to comply with Indian law amid Musk\u2019s push for takedown transparency: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid X owner Elon Musk\u2019s announcement that the social media platform will make government requests to take down content more transparent and visible, a senior Information Technology Ministry official on Tuesday said the platform \u201cwill have to comply with Indian law,\u201d reported PTI. <\/p>\n<p>Musk recently announced that X would make government-directed censorship more visible to users by disclosing which government sought a content restriction and the reasons cited for the request. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about the government\u2019s position on X\u2019s proposed transparency measures, the senior official said the platform would have to follow the legal process in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid X owner Elon Musk\u2019s announcement that the social media platform will make government requests to take down content more transparent and visible, a senior Information Technology Ministry official on Tuesday said the platform \u201cwill have to comply with Indian law,\u201d reported PTI. Musk recently announced that X would make government-directed censorship more visible to users by disclosing which government sought a content restriction and the reasons cited for the request. Asked about the government\u2019s position on X\u2019s proposed transparency measures, the senior official said the platform would have to follow the legal process in India.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029683","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=1029683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029703,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029683\/revisions\/1029703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}