{"id":858386,"date":"2024-09-21T10:16:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=858386"},"modified":"2024-09-21T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:46:42","slug":"bombay-high-court-strikes-down-it-rules-amendment-targeting-fake-news-on-social-media-vague-and-hence-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/21\/bombay-high-court-strikes-down-it-rules-amendment-targeting-fake-news-on-social-media-vague-and-hence-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay High Court strikes down IT rules amendment targeting \u2018fake news\u2019 on social media: \u201c&#8230;vague and hence wrong\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court on Friday (September 20) declared the amended Information Technology (IT) Rules unconstitutional and struck them down. These rules aimed to identify and control fake content on social media about the government.<br \/>\nThe case was brought before Justice Chandurkar due to differing opinions within the previous division bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant ruling, the Bombay High Court on Friday (September 20) declared the amended Information Technology (IT) Rules unconstitutional and struck them down. These rules aimed to identify and control fake content on social media about the government. The case was brought before Justice Chandurkar due to differing opinions within the previous division bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858386","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}