{"id":6479,"date":"2021-06-07T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:00:32","slug":"india-gives-twitter-one-last-chance-to-comply-with-it-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/india-gives-twitter-one-last-chance-to-comply-with-it-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"India Gives Twitter One Last Chance To Comply With IT Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to an official letter obtained by Reuters, India has told Twitter Inc. that it has one last chance to comply with the new IT rules, or face consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rules, which came into force at the end of May, aim to regulate content on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In late May, India&#8217;s Technology Minister wrote to Twitter about the new rules, but received no response that clarified compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A letter seen by Reuters said failure to comply would lead to &#8220;unintended consequences,&#8221; including the possibility that Twitter could be held accountable for published content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rules have led to legal battles, including a lawsuit by WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/india\/india-twitter-comply-with-it-rules-or-face-unintended-consequences-2021-06-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India tells Twitter Inc. that it has one more chance to comply with the IT rules, or face consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}