{"id":20295,"date":"2020-07-09T00:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/china-great-firewall-descends-hong-kong-internet-users"},"modified":"2020-07-09T00:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:37:03","slug":"chinas-great-firewall-descends-on-hong-kong-internet-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20295","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents rush to erase digital footprints as law gives police powers over online activity<\/p>\n<p>At midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country\u2019s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/07\/hong-kong-police-given-sweeping-powers-under-new-security-law\">Unveiling expanded police powers<\/a> as part of a contentious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/our-spirit-will-never-be-crushed-hong-kong-activists-vow-to-keep-fighting-despite-new-laws\">new national security law<\/a>, the Hong Kong government enabled police to censor online speech and force internet service providers to hand over user information and shut down platforms.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/08\/china-great-firewall-descends-hong-kong-internet-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents rush to erase digital footprints as law gives police powers over online activityAt midnight on Tuesday, the Great Firewall of China, the vast apparatus that limits the country\u2019s internet, appeared to descend on Hong Kong.Unveiling expanded po&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,458,50,48,351,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-internet","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\/20295","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20295\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}