{"id":11665,"date":"2019-11-11T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11665"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:46:50","slug":"india-cracks-down-on-social-media-after-religious-site-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11665","title":{"rendered":"India Cracks Down on Social Media after Religious-Site Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people in\u00a0 India \u00a0were detained on suspicion of publishing inflammatory\u00a0 social media\u00a0 posts and setting off celebratory firecrackers after the Supreme Court ruled to give a disputed religious site to Hindus.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities mentioned they were exhibiting a \u201czero tolerance tactic\u201d toward potentially inflammatory content on YouTube, Twitter, Fb and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>About 47 people were arrested as of late Sunday in Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous state and the website of the contested land, state law enforcement explained on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police have acted upon seven, 681 social media posts throughout the condition by either reporting them to the platform or asking end users to delete them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny unlawful conduct on the world-wide-web will be seen and acted on,\u201d said PV Rama Sastry, a director common of law enforcement in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s funds Lucknow.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court docket awarded the bitterly contested internet site in the northern town of Ayodhya to Hindus on Saturday, dealing a defeat to Muslims who also assert the land that has sparked some of the country\u2019s bloodiest riots considering the fact that independence.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, a Hindu mob wrecked the 16th-century Babri Mosque on the web page, triggering riots in which about 2,000 individuals, largely Muslims, had been killed. No main violence was described right after the ruling around the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The police also said they sealed a local office of right-wing Hindu nationalist group Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha and detained its national vice president, Ashok Sharma. They did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of people in\u00a0 India \u00a0were detained on suspicion of publishing inflammatory\u00a0 social media\u00a0 posts and setting off celebratory firecrackers after the Supreme Court ruled to give a disputed religious site to Hindus. Authorities mentioned they were exhibiting a \u201czero tolerance tactic\u201d toward potentially inflammatory content on YouTube, Twitter, Fb and WhatsApp. About 47 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11665\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}