{"id":24723,"date":"2020-11-13T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/who-drops-censorship-of-words-taiwan-and-china-on-social-media-after-backlash"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T04:34:32","slug":"who-drops-censorship-of-words-taiwan-and-china-on-social-media-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24723","title":{"rendered":"WHO drops censorship of words &#8216;Taiwan&#8217; and &#8216;China&#8217; on social media after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health body says countries\u2019 names had been blocked on their Facebook page because of an \u2018onslaught\u2019 of cyber attacks<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation has removed social media filters which were censoring the words \u201cTaiwan\u201d and \u201cChina\u201d from its Facebook page after an online backlash, but said the blocks were because of an \u201conslaught\u201d of cyber attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The about-face comes amid intense criticism over China\u2019s continued blocking of Taiwan \u2013 which has gone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/hugs-sequins-and-rainbows-as-taiwan-enjoys-victory-over-virus\">more than 215 days without a local case of Covid-19<\/a> \u2013 from participation in meetings of the WHO\u2019s decision-making body, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/18\/world-health-assembly-what-is-it-and-what-is-the-coronavirus-inquiry-china-taiwan-origins\">the World Health Assembly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/13\/who-drops-censorship-of-words-taiwan-and-china-on-social-media-after-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health body says countries\u2019 names had been blocked on their Facebook page because of an \u2018onslaught\u2019 of cyber attacksThe World Health Organisation has removed social media filters which were censoring the words \u201cTaiwan\u201d and \u201cChina\u201d from its Facebook pag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"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":[41,50,74,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-health-organization","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\/24723","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\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24723\/revisions\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}