{"id":943112,"date":"2025-07-02T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943112"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:58:47","slug":"officers-are-not-tom-dick-or-harry-government-to-elon-musks-x-over-content-takedown-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/02\/officers-are-not-tom-dick-or-harry-government-to-elon-musks-x-over-content-takedown-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018&#8230;officers are not Tom, Dick, or Harry\u2026\u2019: Government to Elon Musk\u2019s X over content takedown orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is clashing with the government once again over content moderation. A lawyer for the social media company argued in Karnataka high court that \u201cevery Tom, Dick, and Harry\u201d has been authorised to issue content takedown orders \u2013 a statement that drew sharp criticism from the Centre\u2019s counsel.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came during a hearing for X&#8217;s challenge against a government-run website. X claims this portal is a \u201ccensorship portal\u201d that allows officials to demand content removal, while the government maintains it is a tool to swiftly notify companies of their due diligence obligations regarding online content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is clashing with the government once again over content moderation. A lawyer for the social media company argued in Karnataka high court that \u201cevery Tom, Dick, and Harry\u201d has been authorised to issue content takedown orders \u2013 a statement that drew sharp criticism from the Centre\u2019s counsel. The remarks came during a hearing for X&#8217;s challenge against a government-run website. X claims this portal is a \u201ccensorship portal\u201d that allows officials to demand content removal, while the government maintains it is a tool to swiftly notify companies of their due diligence obligations regarding online content.<\/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-943112","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\/943112","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=943112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}