{"id":964237,"date":"2025-09-25T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964237"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:30:54","slug":"liberty-is-yoked-with-responsibility-court-rejects-musks-x-bid-against-modi-governments-content-takedown-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/liberty-is-yoked-with-responsibility-court-rejects-musks-x-bid-against-modi-governments-content-takedown-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Liberty is yoked with responsibility\u2019: Court rejects Musk\u2019s X bid against Modi government\u2019s content takedown rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian court on Wednesday ruled there was no merit in X\u2019s legal challenge to quash the country\u2019s content removal mechanism the social media site had equated with censorship, saying the platform had a duty of accountability and must follow local laws. <\/p>\n<p>X-owner Elon Musk, a self-described free-speech absolutist, has clashed with authorities in several countries over compliance and content takedown demands, but X\u2019s Indian lawsuit had targeted the entire basis for tightened internet regulation in the world\u2019s most populous nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian court on Wednesday ruled there was no merit in X\u2019s legal challenge to quash the country\u2019s content removal mechanism the social media site had equated with censorship, saying the platform had a duty of accountability and must follow local laws. X-owner Elon Musk, a self-described free-speech absolutist, has clashed with authorities in several countries over compliance and content takedown demands, but X\u2019s Indian lawsuit had targeted the entire basis for tightened internet regulation in the world\u2019s most populous nation.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237","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=964237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}