{"id":950101,"date":"2025-07-26T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950101"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T03:37:00","slug":"india-blocks-25-websites-for-hosting-unlawful-content-citing-it-act-and-digital-media-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/26\/india-blocks-25-websites-for-hosting-unlawful-content-citing-it-act-and-digital-media-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"India blocks 25 websites for hosting unlawful content, citing IT Act and digital media rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 25: In a major step to curb the spread of illegal online content, the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB), Government of India, has directed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block public access to 25 websites within the country. These platforms were identified as hosting material that violates Indian laws. <\/p>\n<p>The directive falls under the framework of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, July 25: In a major step to curb the spread of illegal online content, the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting (MIB), Government of India, has directed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block public access to 25 websites within the country. These platforms were identified as hosting material that violates Indian laws. The directive falls under the framework of the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics).<\/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":[21,47,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-it-2-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950101","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=950101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}