{"id":942373,"date":"2025-06-30T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942373"},"modified":"2025-06-30T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:46:28","slug":"draft-misinformation-bill-navigating-truth-and-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/draft-misinformation-bill-navigating-truth-and-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Misinformation Bill: Navigating truth and censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last February, the Karnataka government turned Bengaluru\u2019s Palace Grounds into a constitutional theatre, declaring that Dr B R Ambedkar\u2019s promise of \u2018liberty of thought and expression\u2019 was realised, at a two-day international conference with academics, lawyers and retired judges. One year on, that flourish feels hollow. Going by a leaked draft, the Karnataka Misinformation &amp; Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025, would make burning the Manusmriti, the very act that defined Ambedkar\u2019s protest and yearning for social reform, a cognisable offence. The dissonance is more than ironic. It guts the moral authority with which Congress berates the Union government for throttling dissent through authoritarian laws and practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February, the Karnataka government turned Bengaluru\u2019s Palace Grounds into a constitutional theatre, declaring that Dr B R Ambedkar\u2019s promise of \u2018liberty of thought and expression\u2019 was realised, at a two-day international conference with academics, lawyers and retired judges. One year on, that flourish feels hollow. Going by a leaked draft, the Karnataka Misinformation &amp; Fake News (Prohibition) Bill, 2025, would make burning the Manusmriti, the very act that defined Ambedkar\u2019s protest and yearning for social reform, a cognisable offence. The dissonance is more than ironic. It guts the moral authority with which Congress berates the Union government for throttling [&hellip;]<\/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":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942373","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=942373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}