{"id":549579,"date":"2006-07-20T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549579-crime-website-offline.html"},"modified":"2006-07-20T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T07:59:59","slug":"crime-website-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549579-crime-website-offline.html","title":{"rendered":"Crime Website Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Internet users trying to access the controversial website last night, hosted at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimexposouthafrica.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.crimexposouthafrica.co.za\/<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">, were greeted with the message \u201cDirectory Listing Denied\u201d. This morning the website was still offline.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Neil Watson, founder of the Crime Expo South Africa website, initially selected the domain name <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za\/<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">for his site, but according to Watson sabotage attempts prompted him to opt for the \u2018crimexposouthafrica\u2019 domain instead.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Watson in an EP Herald report has also accused a Cape info tourist website of registering &quot;all related crime expo and crime barometer domains, in an attempt to confuse the public&quot;.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.crimebarometersouthafrica.co.za\/<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">domain has since become the home of RealSouthAfrica.co.za, a website started by Pieter Boshoff. Boshoff is attempting to counteract CrimeExpo SA\u2019s aim of warning the outside world about local crime and in the process discouraging tourists from visiting South Africa.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Boshoff states on his website that he recognizes the problem of crime, but that he disagrees with the methods used by Watson. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The domain name <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeexposouthafrica.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.crimeexposouthafrica.co.za\/<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">was also registered by Boshoff and points to his RealSouthAfrica website.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=48415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much publicized Crime Expo South Africa website aiming to expose local crime went offline yesterday.<\/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-549579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549579"}],"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=549579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}