{"id":991238,"date":"2026-02-11T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991238"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:29:12","slug":"uk-regulator-asks-social-media-firms-to-block-crypto-exchange-htx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/uk-regulator-asks-social-media-firms-to-block-crypto-exchange-htx\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator asks social media firms to block crypto exchange HTX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s markets regulator said \u200don Tuesday it had \u200basked social media companies and app stores to block \u2060access to crypto exchange HTX in the UK. <\/p>\n<p>The Financial Conduct Authority, which filed a lawsuit against HTX in October accusing it of unlawfully promoting crypto asset services \u200cto UK \u200cconsumers, said Tuesday it had asked Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Apple to remove HTX products from \u200cUK app stores, and asked social media companies to block HTX&#8217;s accounts to UK-based consumers. <\/p>\n<p>HTX, whose owners were not identified in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s markets regulator said \u200don Tuesday it had \u200basked social media companies and app stores to block \u2060access to crypto exchange HTX in the UK. The Financial Conduct Authority, which filed a lawsuit against HTX in October accusing it of unlawfully promoting crypto asset services \u200cto UK \u200cconsumers, said Tuesday it had asked Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Apple to remove HTX products from \u200cUK app stores, and asked social media companies to block HTX&#8217;s accounts to UK-based consumers. HTX, whose owners were not identified in the lawsuit, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991238","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=991238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}