{"id":39299,"date":"2011-12-05T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39299"},"modified":"2011-12-05T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:46:28","slug":"iphones-banned-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/39299-iphones-banned-in-syria.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhones banned in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using an <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> iPhone has been banned in Syria by authorities who are attempting to silence communication between protestors and curb citizen journalism.<\/p>\n<p>A ban issued by the Customs Department of the Syrian Finance Ministry read, \u201cThe authorities warn anyone against using the iphone in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just the latest in a list of bans that that have seen most foreign media barred from entering the country, which is in the middle of a bitter dispute between the Assad government, and protestors calling for the president\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is enough for any tourist or guest visiting Syria to own an iPhone to be a spy suspect,&#8221; said an anonymous Syrian activist. &#8220;<a title=\"Steve Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340669-Steve-Jobs\">Steve Jobs<\/a> must be turning in his grave on learning that his iconic device is banned in his home country,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The biological father of the recently deceased Jobs was a Syrian named <a title=\"Abdel Fattah Jandali\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387105-Abdel-Fattah-Jandali\">Abdel-Fattah Jandali<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Haaretz news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/middle-east\/report-syria-bans-iphone-to-cover-up-crackdown-on-anti-assad-protests-1.399241\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian authorities ban the iPhone in an attempt to silence protestors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29938,"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":[7211,605,3480,609],"class_list":["post-39299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-abdel-fattah-jandali","tag-apple","tag-apple-iphone","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39299"}],"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=39299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39301,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39299\/revisions\/39301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}