{"id":908407,"date":"2025-02-24T05:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=908407"},"modified":"2025-02-24T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:25:48","slug":"need-new-legal-framework-to-regulate-harmful-content-ib-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/24\/need-new-legal-framework-to-regulate-harmful-content-ib-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Need new legal framework to regulate &#8216;harmful&#8217; content: I&amp;B Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is examining the existing statutory provisions and the need for a new legal framework to regulate &#8220;harmful&#8221; content amid complaints of &#8220;obscenity and violence&#8221; being shown on digital platforms. <\/p>\n<p>In its reply to a parliamentary panel, the ministry said there is a growing concern in the society that the constitutional right of &#8220;freedom of expression is being misused to showcase obscene and violent content on digital platforms&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Information and Broadcasting Ministry is examining the existing statutory provisions and the need for a new legal framework to regulate &#8220;harmful&#8221; content amid complaints of &#8220;obscenity and violence&#8221; being shown on digital platforms. In its reply to a parliamentary panel, the ministry said there is a growing concern in the society that the constitutional right of &#8220;freedom of expression is being misused to showcase obscene and violent content on digital platforms&#8221;.<\/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-908407","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\/908407","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=908407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}