{"id":929483,"date":"2025-05-09T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=929483"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:06:19","slug":"elon-musks-twitter-indian-government-has-asked-us-to-block-8000-accounts-however-we-disagree-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/09\/elon-musks-twitter-indian-government-has-asked-us-to-block-8000-accounts-however-we-disagree-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter: Indian government has asked us to block 8,000 accounts, however, we disagree as \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) said it has received orders from the Indian government to block more than 8,000 accounts that include those of some \u201cinternational news organizations\u201d and \u201cprominent X users\u201d for violating local laws. Sharing the post, the official handle of X&#8217;s Global Government Affairs said that it has complied with orders and has started the process of withholding the specified accounts in the country. \u201cHowever, we disagree with the Indian government\u2019s demands. Blocking entire accounts is not only unnecessary, it amounts to censorship of existing and future content, and is contrary to the fundamental right of free speech,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The post added that the company has provided the affected users with notice of the actions in accordance with its policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned social media platform X (formerly Twitter) said it has received orders from the Indian government to block more than 8,000 accounts that include those of some \u201cinternational news organizations\u201d and \u201cprominent X users\u201d for violating local laws. Sharing the post, the official handle of X&#8217;s Global Government Affairs said that it has complied with orders and has started the process of withholding the specified accounts in the country. \u201cHowever, we disagree with the Indian government\u2019s demands. Blocking entire accounts is not only unnecessary, it amounts to censorship of existing and future content, and is contrary to the fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929483","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}