{"id":9560,"date":"2009-09-10T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-10T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T19:24:00","slug":"facebook-ban-for-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/9560-facebook-ban-for-civil-servants.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ban for civil servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Workers who need to access the social network for professional reasons can request a special dispensation,&#8221; said a statement from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Of the government&#8217;s seven ministries, only the foreign ministry will still allow employees to access the site once the ban comes in next week.<\/p>\n<p>Government workers were asked in May to &#8220;show moderation in private use of the Internet, notably of Facebook,&#8221; the statement said. Such use did decrease slightly, but Facebook remained one of the four most popular sites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=191413\"><strong>Facebook civil servant ban<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss government has banned its employees from using Facebook after failed appeals for them to reduce time spent on the social networking site, a statement said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}