{"id":548011,"date":"2006-02-15T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548011-us-launches-internet-freedom-task-force.html"},"modified":"2006-02-15T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T13:35:31","slug":"us-launches-internet-freedom-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548011-us-launches-internet-freedom-task-force.html","title":{"rendered":"US launches Internet freedom task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Global Internet Freedom Task Force will focus on the &quot;foreign policy aspects of Internet freedom&quot;, the department said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>These aspects include &quot;The use of technology to restrict access to political content and the impact of such censorship efforts on US companies; the use of technology to track and repress dissidents; and efforts to modify Internet governance structures in order to restrict the free flow of information,&quot; it said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The task force will be overseen by Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner, and Undersecretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The task force will co-ordinate with other US government agencies, non-government organisations and academics, the statement said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Internet directory Yahoo welcomed the move. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;We applaud the direction of the secretary of state in establishing the Global Internet Freedom Task Force. This embraces the government-to-government approach that Yahoo has been urging,&quot; said Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/><i>INet-Bridge<\/i><\/font> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department said yesterday that it has set up a task force to monitor challenges to Internet freedom by repressive regimes around the globe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-548011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548011"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}