{"id":34850,"date":"2011-09-28T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34850"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:25:41","slug":"fight-for-internet-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/34850-fight-for-internet-freedom.html","title":{"rendered":"Fight for Internet freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet activists accuse governments, including Egypt and Pakistan, of trying to control the Internet though filtering, content blocking and user surveillance, and want a charter put in place that protects consumers from these tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, an internet activist told Reuters, \u201cWe want to emphasize the development, perhaps in the form of a charter on the rights of Internet users so they can claim openness, universality, access and affordability and possibly to know who to turn to if these principles are not respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Boer-Buquicchio wants representatives of member governments, ICT industry members and civilians to take part in the formation of the charter, alongside the Council of Europe, which comprises of 47 states.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Reuters news agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/09\/27\/us-internet-governance-europe-idUSTRE78Q3RP20110927\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Europe wants an Internet user charter established to guarantee consumer rights in the face of government pressure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":30960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[173,151,5190,5186,5188],"class_list":["post-34850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-egypt","tag-ict","tag-internet-freedom","tag-maud-de-boer-buquicchio","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34852,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34850\/revisions\/34852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}