{"id":8751,"date":"2023-01-25T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/indian-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-puts-musks-twitter-free-speech-vow-to-the-test\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:37:43","slug":"indian-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-puts-musks-twitter-free-speech-vow-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/indian-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-puts-musks-twitter-free-speech-vow-to-the-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk\u2019s Twitter \u2018free speech\u2019 vow to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media now occupy in India<\/p>\n<p>The response by the Indian government was quick and draconian. Days after a BBC documentary examining the role that Narendra Modi, now prime minister, had played in 2002 communal riots in Gujarat was released, the information ministry announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/23\/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary\">all links to the footage were to be banned<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency laws brought in by the Modi government just two years ago were used to enforce the ban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/25\/india-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-emergency-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d37694080d0fbda26aef0104676e9256482292d2\/0_334_5446_3270\/master\/5446.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=703dcc50c6691995939001a038fd11ca\" title=\"Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk\u2019s Twitter \u2018free speech\u2019 vow to the test\" \/>Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media now occupy in India<br \/>\nThe response by the Indian government was quick and draconian. Days after a BBC documentary examining the role that Narendra Modi, now prime minister, had played in 2002 communal riots in Gujarat was released, the information ministry announced that all links to the footage were to be banned on social media.<br \/>\nEmergency laws brought in by the Modi government just two years ago were used to enforce the ban. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of emergency laws sheds light on fragile and fractious place social media now occupy in India The response by the Indian government was quick and draconian. Days after a BBC documentary examining the role that Narendra Modi, now prime minister, had played in 2002 communal riots in Gujarat was released, the information ministry announced &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/indian-ban-on-bbc-modi-film-puts-musks-twitter-free-speech-vow-to-the-test\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian ban on BBC Modi film puts Musk\u2019s Twitter \u2018free speech\u2019 vow to the test<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8752,"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\/8751"}],"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=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}