{"id":970979,"date":"2025-10-31T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970979"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:16:49","slug":"case-for-controlling-indias-digital-future-looking-beyond-whatsapp-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/31\/case-for-controlling-indias-digital-future-looking-beyond-whatsapp-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Case for controlling India\u2019s digital future: looking beyond WhatsApp &amp; Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you think Donald Trump\u2019s tariff policies won\u2019t reach your phone, think again. The man who just imposed new levies on everything from electric cars to software could, with a single stroke of a pen, decide that WhatsApp messages from India count as \u201cdigital imports\u201d. If that happened, India\u2019s business communications could grind to a halt overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Meta, which owns WhatsApp, would comply immediately. Whether driven by regulation or diplomacy, the company would follow Washington\u2019s lead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think Donald Trump\u2019s tariff policies won\u2019t reach your phone, think again. The man who just imposed new levies on everything from electric cars to software could, with a single stroke of a pen, decide that WhatsApp messages from India count as \u201cdigital imports\u201d. If that happened, India\u2019s business communications could grind to a halt overnight. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, would comply immediately. Whether driven by regulation or diplomacy, the company would follow Washington\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970979","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}