{"id":929155,"date":"2025-05-09T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=929155"},"modified":"2025-05-09T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:26:08","slug":"govt-asks-social-media-platform-x-to-block-over-8000-accounts-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/09\/govt-asks-social-media-platform-x-to-block-over-8000-accounts-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt asks social media platform X to block over 8,000 accounts in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X on Thursday said it had received executive orders from the Indian government requiring it to block over 8,000 accounts in India.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that the orders also warned of \u201cpotential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company\u2019s local employees\u201d in case of non-compliance.<\/p>\n<p>According to X, the orders instructed the platform to restrict Indian users\u2019 access to international news organisations and prominent X users within the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform X on Thursday said it had received executive orders from the Indian government requiring it to block over 8,000 accounts in India. The company stated that the orders also warned of \u201cpotential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment of the company\u2019s local employees\u201d in case of non-compliance. According to X, the orders instructed the platform to restrict Indian users\u2019 access to international news organisations and prominent X users within the country.<\/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-929155","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\/929155","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=929155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}