{"id":982820,"date":"2025-12-31T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982820"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:21:31","slug":"centre-warns-social-media-platforms-of-legal-action-over-obscene-unlawful-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/centre-warns-social-media-platforms-of-legal-action-over-obscene-unlawful-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre warns social media platforms of legal action over obscene, unlawful content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has cautioned online platforms, particularly social media companies, that failure to act against obscene, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic and other unlawful content could invite legal action. <\/p>\n<p>In an advisory issued on December 29, 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) directed social media firms to immediately review their compliance frameworks and take prompt action against such content on their platforms, warning that non-compliance could lead to prosecution under existing laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has cautioned online platforms, particularly social media companies, that failure to act against obscene, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic and other unlawful content could invite legal action. In an advisory issued on December 29, 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) directed social media firms to immediately review their compliance frameworks and take prompt action against such content on their platforms, warning that non-compliance could lead to prosecution under existing laws.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982820","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=982820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}