{"id":947656,"date":"2025-07-18T07:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947656"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:09:43","slug":"social-media-monitors-us-constantly-need-to-regulate-centre-tells-karnataka-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/social-media-monitors-us-constantly-need-to-regulate-centre-tells-karnataka-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media monitors us constantly, need to regulate: Centre tells Karnataka HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an urgent need for regulation in the digital space, due to the constant surveillance by social media, rising cybercrime and the evolving threat landscape, the Centre told the Karnataka High Court during a hearing on the X Corp (formerly Twitter) case over content takedown directives. <\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union Government, argued that internet intermediaries like \u2018X\u2019 must act responsibly and cannot claim the same constitutional rights as individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an urgent need for regulation in the digital space, due to the constant surveillance by social media, rising cybercrime and the evolving threat landscape, the Centre told the Karnataka High Court during a hearing on the X Corp (formerly Twitter) case over content takedown directives. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union Government, argued that internet intermediaries like \u2018X\u2019 must act responsibly and cannot claim the same constitutional rights as individuals.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947656","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=947656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}