{"id":841017,"date":"2024-08-05T09:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=841017"},"modified":"2024-08-05T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T03:53:47","slug":"broadcast-bill-threatens-independence-of-press-curbs-free-speech-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/05\/broadcast-bill-threatens-independence-of-press-curbs-free-speech-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadcast Bill threatens independence of press, curbs free speech: Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has said the proposed Broadcasting Bill is a \u201cthreat\u201d to freedom of speech and independent media. <\/p>\n<p>Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera took to \u2018X\u2019 on Friday to assert that the proposed Bill, titled Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, aims for an increased government control over content creators, ranging from social media influencers to independent news outlets and will \u201cpave the way for excessive surveillance in the online world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress has said the proposed Broadcasting Bill is a \u201cthreat\u201d to freedom of speech and independent media. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera took to \u2018X\u2019 on Friday to assert that the proposed Bill, titled Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, aims for an increased government control over content creators, ranging from social media influencers to independent news outlets and will \u201cpave the way for excessive surveillance in the online world.\u201d<\/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":[36,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841017","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=841017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}