{"id":50334,"date":"2024-02-22T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=50334"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:01:00","slug":"murder-of-democracy-congress-slams-govt-over-xs-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/murder-of-democracy-congress-slams-govt-over-xs-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Of Democracy: Congress Slams Govt Over X\u2019s Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi, Feb 22:<\/strong> The Congress alleged on Thursday that democracy is being \u201cmurdered\u201d in the country, after microblogging platform X voiced disagreement with the BJP-led Centre\u2019s order to block accounts and posts related to ongoing farmers\u2019 protests.<br>X also called for extending freedom of expression to the affected posts.<br>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered social media platforms to temporarily block 177 accounts linked to the farmers\u2019 protests on the request of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), according to sources.<br>Tagging a statement issued by X\u2019s Global Government Affairs team, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, \u201cMurder Of Democracy in India.\u201d In its statement, the microblogging platform said: \u201cThe Indian government has issued executive orders requiring X to act on specific accounts and posts, subject to potential penalties, including significant fines and imprisonment. In compliance with the orders, we will withhold these accounts and posts in India alone; however, we disagree with these actions and maintain that freedom of expression should extend to these posts.\u201d It said a writ appeal challenging the government\u2019s blocking orders remains pending and called for making the order public to enhance transparency.<br>\u201cDue to legal restrictions, we are unable to publish the executive orders, but we believe that making them public is essential for transparency. This lack of disclosure can lead to a lack of accountability and arbitrary decision-making,\u201d X said.<br>The microblogging platform has provided the impacted users with a notice of the government\u2019s actions in accordance with the company\u2019s policies.<br>Farmers from across the country have been protesting to press the Centre for their demands, including a legal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) for crops and farm loan waiver.<br>The protesting farmer leaders put their march to Delhi on hold for two days on Wednesday after a protester was killed and about 12 police personnel were injured in clashes at one of the protest sites on the Punjab-Haryana border. (Agencies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Feb 22: The Congress alleged on Thursday that democracy is being \u201cmurdered\u201d in the country, after microblogging platform X voiced disagreement with the BJP-led&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[444,1032,73,1033,3269,3270],"class_list":["post-50334","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national","tag-congress","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-india","tag-latestnews","tag-murder-of-democracy","tag-xs-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50336,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50334\/revisions\/50336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}