{"id":890951,"date":"2024-12-26T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T02:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=890951"},"modified":"2024-12-26T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:03:23","slug":"iran-lifts-ban-on-whatsapp-and-google-play-a-turning-point-for-internet-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/26\/iran-lifts-ban-on-whatsapp-and-google-play-a-turning-point-for-internet-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran lifts ban on WhatsApp and Google Play \u2013 A turning point for internet freedom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran said it will start easing some of the world\u2019s tightest internet restrictions by lifting its ban on WhatsApp and Google Play \u2014 a sign that authorities want to placate domestic opponents as the Islamic Republic faces major economic and foreign-policy challenges. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, Iran\u2019s Supreme Council of Cyberspace approved the lifting of blocks on \u201ccertain widely used foreign platforms\u201d according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, which named WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two applications to be unblocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran said it will start easing some of the world\u2019s tightest internet restrictions by lifting its ban on WhatsApp and Google Play \u2014 a sign that authorities want to placate domestic opponents as the Islamic Republic faces major economic and foreign-policy challenges. Earlier on Tuesday, Iran\u2019s Supreme Council of Cyberspace approved the lifting of blocks on \u201ccertain widely used foreign platforms\u201d according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, which named WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two applications to be unblocked.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890951","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=890951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}