{"id":18203,"date":"2025-03-20T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/x-sues-modis-government-over-content-removal-in-new-india-censorship-fight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:38:10","slug":"x-sues-modis-government-over-content-removal-in-new-india-censorship-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/x-sues-modis-government-over-content-removal-in-new-india-censorship-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"X sues Modi&#8217;s government over content removal in new India censorship fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s company is arguing against the government\u2019s expanded powers to allow easier removal of online content<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a>\u2019s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered \u201ccountless\u201d government officials to execute such orders, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">X<\/a> has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit and the allegations mark an escalation in an ongoing legal dispute between X and the government of India\u2019s prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a>, over how New Delhi orders content to be taken down. It also comes as Musk is getting closer to launching his other key ventures, Starlink and Tesla, in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/20\/x-india-censorship-lawsuit-modi-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/190a753fb49baef432a0c668e11548181f7b4538\/0_457_3641_2183\/master\/3641.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ab900bfed49cb4a2923f795153e4ef1\" title=\"X sues Modi's government over content removal in new India censorship fight\" \/>Elon Musk\u2019s company is arguing against the government\u2019s expanded powers to allow easier removal of online content<br \/>\nIndia\u2019s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered \u201ccountless\u201d government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk\u2019s X has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit and the allegations mark an escalation in an ongoing legal dispute between X and the government of India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, over how New Delhi orders content to be taken down. It also comes as Musk is getting closer to launching his other key ventures, Starlink and Tesla, in India. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s company is arguing against the government\u2019s expanded powers to allow easier removal of online content India\u2019s IT ministry has unlawfully expanded censorship powers to allow the easier removal of online content and empowered \u201ccountless\u201d government officials to execute such orders, Elon Musk\u2019s X has alleged in a new lawsuit against New Delhi. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/x-sues-modis-government-over-content-removal-in-new-india-censorship-fight\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">X sues Modi&#8217;s government over content removal in new India censorship fight<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}