{"id":915999,"date":"2025-03-21T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=915999"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:44:24","slug":"unlawful-regulation-elon-musks-x-sues-centre-over-alleged-censorship-it-act-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/21\/unlawful-regulation-elon-musks-x-sues-centre-over-alleged-censorship-it-act-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unlawful regulation&#8217;: Elon Musk&#8217;s X sues Centre over alleged censorship, IT Act violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant &#8216;X&#8217; (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. <\/p>\n<p>It raised concerns over the Centre&#8217;s interpretation of the Information Technology (IT) Act, particularly its use of Section 79(3)(b), which &#8216;X&#8217; argues violates Supreme Court rulings and undermines free expression online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant &#8216;X&#8217; (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. It raised concerns over the Centre&#8217;s interpretation of the Information Technology (IT) Act, particularly its use of Section 79(3)(b), which &#8216;X&#8217; argues violates Supreme Court rulings and undermines free expression online.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915999","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=915999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}