{"id":12296,"date":"2019-12-19T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-internet-curbs-are-part-of-growing-global-trend"},"modified":"2019-12-19T21:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:45:31","slug":"indias-internet-curbs-are-part-of-growing-global-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12296","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s internet curbs are part of growing global trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As internet use has surged, especially in developing world, so have attempts to switch off flow of information<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-citizenship-law-protesters-across-country-defy-ban\">internet shutdowns came to the capital city<\/a> of the world\u2019s largest democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of data services, phone calls and texting to curb protests in parts of Delhi was an inauspicious milestone for a tactic that is becoming an increasingly common tool for authoritarian governments \u2013 but practised most often by India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/19\/india-internet-curbs-are-part-of-growing-global-trend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As internet use has surged, especially in developing world, so have attempts to switch off flow of informationOn Thursday, internet shutdowns came to the capital city of the world\u2019s largest democracy.The suspension of data services, phone calls and tex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,457,62,351,448,212,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-internet","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12296\/revisions\/12297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}