{"id":916136,"date":"2025-03-22T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=916136"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:10:24","slug":"x-sues-indian-govt-over-arbitrary-censorship-what-is-the-case-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/22\/x-sues-indian-govt-over-arbitrary-censorship-what-is-the-case-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"X sues Indian govt over arbitrary censorship: What is the case all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US billionaire Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) has moved a plea in the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government, alleging unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. In its plea, the social media giant has argued that the Centre&#8217;s interpretation of the Information Technology (IT) Act\u2014particularly its use of Section 79(3)(b)\u2014violates the landmark Supreme Court ruling in the Shreya Singhal case and undermines free expression online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US billionaire Elon Musk-owned X (formerly Twitter) has moved a plea in the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government, alleging unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship. In its plea, the social media giant has argued that the Centre&#8217;s interpretation of the Information Technology (IT) Act\u2014particularly its use of Section 79(3)(b)\u2014violates the landmark Supreme Court ruling in the Shreya Singhal case 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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916136","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\/916136","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=916136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}