{"id":30545,"date":"2012-01-29T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/twitters_new_censorship_plan_stirs_global_furor\/"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:04:58","slug":"twitters_new_censorship_plan_stirs_global_furor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30545","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Twitter&#39;s new censorship plan stirs global furor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to organize protests during last year&#8217;s Arab Spring uprising.<\/p>\n<p>But in what many view as an about-face, Twitter now says it has the power to block tweets in a specific country if the government legally requires it to do so, triggering outrage around the world, especially in Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-twitter-censors-20120128,0,4660023.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to organize protests during last year&#8217;s Arab Spring uprising. But in what many view as an about-face, Twitter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30545\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,94,589,149,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}