{"id":950077,"date":"2025-07-26T08:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950077"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:08:32","slug":"centre-cracks-down-on-obscene-content-bans-25-ott-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/centre-cracks-down-on-obscene-content-bans-25-ott-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre cracks down on obscene content, bans 25 OTT platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Friday ordered a ban on websites and apps of 25 over-the-top (OTT) platforms for allegedly displaying obscene, vulgar and pornographic content. <\/p>\n<p>Among the banned digital platforms are apps with wide reach, including ALTT, the OTT subsidiary of producer Ekta Kapoor-owned Balaji Telefilms, and Ullu. <\/p>\n<p>Ekta Kapoor\u2019s OTT platform has earlier too faced allegations of pushing boundaries in adult-themed web series. After the ban today, Balaji Telefilms\u2019 shares slumped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government on Friday ordered a ban on websites and apps of 25 over-the-top (OTT) platforms for allegedly displaying obscene, vulgar and pornographic content. Among the banned digital platforms are apps with wide reach, including ALTT, the OTT subsidiary of producer Ekta Kapoor-owned Balaji Telefilms, and Ullu. Ekta Kapoor\u2019s OTT platform has earlier too faced allegations of pushing boundaries in adult-themed web series. After the ban today, Balaji Telefilms\u2019 shares slumped.<\/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":[90,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950077","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=950077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}