{"id":23991,"date":"2020-10-20T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/a-double-edged-sword-hopes-and-fears-for-children-as-fast-internet-reaches-pacific"},"modified":"2020-10-20T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T20:00:03","slug":"a-double-edged-sword-hopes-and-fears-for-children-as-fast-internet-reaches-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23991","title":{"rendered":"A double-edged sword: hopes and fears for children as fast internet reaches Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New fibre-optic cables to Pacific islands have been cautiously welcomed amid warnings over harassment and violence linked to online platforms<\/p>\n<p>From the narrow bay of Sydney\u2019s Tamarama Beach, a cable twice as thick as garden hose, carrying optic fibre thinner than human hair, stretches along the ocean floor linking Australia to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coralseacablesystem.com.au\/\">Coral Sea cable<\/a> will provide, for the first time, fast internet to Australia\u2019s near Pacific island neighbours. A similar link, called Manatua One Polynesia \u2013 connecting Samoa, Niue, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia \u2013 was declared \u201cready for service\u201d in July.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/20\/a-double-edged-sword-hopes-and-fears-for-children-as-fast-internet-reaches-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> New fibre-optic cables to Pacific islands have been cautiously welcomed amid warnings over harassment and violence linked to online platformsFrom the narrow bay of Sydney\u2019s Tamarama Beach, a cable twice as thick as garden hose, carrying optic fibre th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1637,"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":[41,934,436,686,874,267,63,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-domestic-violence","category-fiji","category-internet-safety","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-solomon-islands","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991","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\/1637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23992,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23991\/revisions\/23992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}