{"id":892033,"date":"2025-01-01T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T02:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=892033"},"modified":"2025-01-01T08:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T02:44:06","slug":"social-media-companies-face-global-tug-of-war-over-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/01\/social-media-companies-face-global-tug-of-war-over-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media companies face global tug-of-war over free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald J Trump and his allies have vowed to squash an online \u201ccensorship cartel\u201d of social media firms that they say targets conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>Already, the president-elect\u2019s newly chosen regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have outlined plans to stop social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube from removing content the companies deem offensive \u2014 and punish advertisers that leave less restrictive platforms like X in protest of the lack of moderation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald J Trump and his allies have vowed to squash an online \u201ccensorship cartel\u201d of social media firms that they say targets conservatives. Already, the president-elect\u2019s newly chosen regulators at the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have outlined plans to stop social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube from removing content the companies deem offensive \u2014 and punish advertisers that leave less restrictive platforms like X in protest of the lack of moderation.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892033","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=892033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}