{"id":68728,"date":"2025-01-03T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/03\/elon-musks-starlink-satellites-allegedly-used-to-defy-indias-internet-shutdowns"},"modified":"2025-01-03T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:19:13","slug":"smuggled-starlink-devices-allegedly-used-to-defy-indias-internet-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68728","title":{"rendered":"Smuggled Starlink devices allegedly used to defy India\u2019s internet shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civilian and armed groups in conflict-ridden state of Manipur using SpaceX\u2019s satellite internet, sources say<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s satellite-based Starlink \u2013 currently unlicensed for use in India \u2013 is being used by militant groups in the conflict-ridden state of Manipur to circumvent government internet shutdowns, fighters and security sources have said.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite internet service provider, operated by Musk\u2019s SpaceX company, is not permitted to legally operate in India amid security concerns but is allowed by Myanmar, which neighbours Manipur.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/03\/elon-musks-starlink-satellites-allegedly-used-to-defy-indias-internet-shutdowns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilian and armed groups in conflict-ridden state of Manipur using SpaceX\u2019s satellite internet, sources sayElon Musk\u2019s satellite-based Starlink \u2013 currently unlicensed for use in India \u2013 is being used by militant groups in the conflict-ridden state of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236,1978,62,351,61,1442,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-media","category-elon-musk","category-india","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spacex","category-technology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68729,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68728\/revisions\/68729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}