{"id":981869,"date":"2025-12-24T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981869"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:53:40","slug":"whatsapp-complains-about-restrictions-in-russia-after-reported-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/whatsapp-complains-about-restrictions-in-russia-after-reported-slowdown\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp complains about restrictions in Russia after reported slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp complained about restrictions to its service in Russia on Tuesday, accusing the authorities of trying to deprive more than 100 million Russians of the right to private communications before \u200cthe holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp&#8217;s statement \u200cfollowed a repeat warning by Russia&#8217;s communications regulator that it would completely block WhatsApp if it did not \u200ccomply with its demands to bring its services into line with Russian law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp complained about restrictions to its service in Russia on Tuesday, accusing the authorities of trying to deprive more than 100 million Russians of the right to private communications before \u200cthe holiday season. WhatsApp&#8217;s statement \u200cfollowed a repeat warning by Russia&#8217;s communications regulator that it would completely block WhatsApp if it did not \u200ccomply with its demands to bring its services into line with Russian law.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981869","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=981869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}