{"id":1205,"date":"2024-06-09T00:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2024-06-09T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T00:28:29","slug":"stop-letting-governments-request-social-media-censorship-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/stop-letting-governments-request-social-media-censorship-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop letting governments request social media censorship in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governments around the world routinely request global social media and search platforms to\u00a0remove content. This can be a positive thing if the content in question is clearly harmful. But it can be nefarious if the content is simply inconvenient or disagreeable to a government\u2019s viewpoint on a particular current news topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, when governments around the world request or demand censorship, they do so with the expectation that their request will remain private and not be publicized. Some online platforms report a summary of these government requests. Other platforms are completely silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been observed recently in content removal requests from a powerful court justice in Brazil. X has brought the most recent requests into the glare of public lights with its\u00a0initial refusals\u00a0to comply, but it is clear that Brazil and other governments around the world intend\u00a0to silence their opposition online\u00a0without the embarrassment of making such requests in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments around the world routinely request global social media and search platforms to&nbsp;remove content. This can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}