{"id":952,"date":"2024-04-20T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=952"},"modified":"2024-04-20T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:41:12","slug":"shining-a-light-on-censorship-how-transparency-can-curtail-government-social-media-censorship-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/shining-a-light-on-censorship-how-transparency-can-curtail-government-social-media-censorship-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining a\u00a0Light on Censorship: How Transparency Can Curtail Government Social Media Censorship and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is more than one way to burn a\u00a0book,\u201d and recent experience demonstrates that the same is true of government censorship.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/briefing-paper\/shining-light-censorship-how-transparency-can-curtail-government-social-media#_ednref1\">1<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0When most people think about government censorship, they imagine the firemen in\u00a0<em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>burning books or the Great Firewall in China blocking websites. But government censorship, at least in the United States, increasingly occurs in a\u00a0more subtle fashion: government officials informally pressuring or encouraging private actors, such as social media companies, to suppress the speech of, or deny services to, individuals with disfavored views\u2014in other words, censorship by proxy. This practice has also been colloquially referred to as \u201cjawboning.\u201d<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/briefing-paper\/shining-light-censorship-how-transparency-can-curtail-government-social-media#_ednref2\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>adding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal officials should be required to publicly report attempts to suppress Americans\u2019 exercise of speech and associational rights. Censorship by proxy, as practiced today, depends on secrecy and practical obscurity to evade public and legal accountability. Forcing attempted censorship out of the shadows stands to deter the worst abuses and ensure that officials who aren\u2019t deterred can be held to account.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more than one way to burn a&nbsp;book,&rdquo; and recent experience demonstrates that the same [&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-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","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=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}