{"id":24852,"date":"2020-11-17T13:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/solomon-islands-government-preparing-to-ban-facebook"},"modified":"2020-11-17T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T04:03:45","slug":"solomon-islands-government-preparing-to-ban-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24852","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands government preparing to ban Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications minister claims move is intended to address \u2018abusive language\u2019 but observers say it is linked to China\u2019s influence<\/p>\n<p>The Solomon Islands government is preparing to ban Facebook \u2013 an attempt, it says, to limit \u201cabusive language\u201d and \u201ccharacter assassination\u201d but which critics argue is an attempt to curtail criticism of the government.<\/p>\n<p>If implemented Solomon Islands would join China, Iran, and North Korea as outlawing Facebook. Other countries have temporarily blocked it, including the island nation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/2015\/may\/11\/facebook-block-in-nauru-a-temporary-restriction-says-government\">Nauru which prohibited Facebook in 2015<\/a> but unblocked access in 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/17\/solomon-islands-government-preparing-to-ban-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications minister claims move is intended to address \u2018abusive language\u2019 but observers say it is linked to China\u2019s influenceThe Solomon Islands government is preparing to ban Facebook \u2013 an attempt, it says, to limit \u201cabusive language\u201d and \u201ccharact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1699,"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":[41,687,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-facebook","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","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\/24852","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\/1699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24852\/revisions\/24853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}