{"id":944903,"date":"2025-07-09T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944903"},"modified":"2025-07-09T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:23:15","slug":"deeply-concerned-about-ongoing-press-censorship-in-india-x-says-govt-blocked-reuters-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/deeply-concerned-about-ongoing-press-censorship-in-india-x-says-govt-blocked-reuters-account\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deeply concerned about ongoing press censorship in India&#8217;: X says govt blocked Reuters account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elon Musk-owned X has said the Indian government had on July 3 ordered it to block as many as 2,355 accounts, including those belonging to international news agency Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>The directive, issued under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, had demanded immediate compliance within one hour and did not provide any justification, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elon Musk-owned X has said the Indian government had on July 3 ordered it to block as many as 2,355 accounts, including those belonging to international news agency Reuters. The directive, issued under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, had demanded immediate compliance within one hour and did not provide any justification, the company said in a statement.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944903","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=944903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}