{"id":5265,"date":"2004-10-11T14:28:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T13:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5265"},"modified":"2004-10-11T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T13:28:21","slug":"gagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/10\/11\/gagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Gagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3732718.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"IndyMedia sites closed down by FBI, Swiss and Italian authorities\">this<\/a> disturbing. It should be within the power of law enforcement agencies to close down websites that support or promote violence (which is implied here in relation to anti-capitalism protests), but I feel that any such action should only take place after due process in a court of law, with the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven.<br \/>\nEither way, to target the hosting company seems pretty ineffectual &#8211; it is easy to find replacement hosting in a matter of minutes, and not too difficult to find hosting that is beyond the reach of the western authorities. I note that the sites concerned are largely online again already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this disturbing. It should be within the power of law enforcement agencies to close down websites that support or promote violence (which is implied here in relation to anti-capitalism protests), but I feel that any such action should only take place after due process in a court of law, with the presumption of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}