{"id":840564,"date":"2024-08-03T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840564"},"modified":"2024-08-03T09:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T03:42:33","slug":"turkey-blocks-access-to-instagram-over-censorship-mentions-no-duration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/03\/turkey-blocks-access-to-instagram-over-censorship-mentions-no-duration\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey blocks access to Instagram over &#8216;censorship&#8217;, mentions no duration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move, Turkey (T\u00fcrkiye) blocked access to Instagram for its citizens. The development follows censorship accusations against the US social media platform by a high-ranking Turkish official. <\/p>\n<p>The BTK communications authority, the country\u2019s infotech regulator, announced the ban, leaving the platform\u2019s mobile app inaccessible. BTK published the August 2 decision on its website without stating any reason (or duration) for the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise move, Turkey (T\u00fcrkiye) blocked access to Instagram for its citizens. The development follows censorship accusations against the US social media platform by a high-ranking Turkish official. The BTK communications authority, the country\u2019s infotech regulator, announced the ban, leaving the platform\u2019s mobile app inaccessible. BTK published the August 2 decision on its website without stating any reason (or duration) for the ban.<\/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":[9,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840564","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=840564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}