{"id":41739,"date":"2022-02-15T21:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:55:06","slug":"fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41739","title":{"rendered":"Fears of online censorship in Hong Kong as rights group website goes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Hong Kong Watch says outage could be part of wider Beijing crackdown<\/p>\n<p>The website of a UK-based advocacy group appears to have become inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong, raising fears of mainland-style internet censorship in the Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p>The group, Hong Kong Watch, which monitors human rights, said it worried the censorship could be a part of a wider crackdown on freedom of speech under Hong Kong\u2019s national security law, which allows the police to ask service providers to \u201cdelete\u201d information or \u201cprovide assistance\u201d on national security cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/15\/fears-of-online-censorship-in-hong-kong-as-rights-group-website-goes-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based Hong Kong Watch says outage could be part of wider Beijing crackdownThe website of a UK-based advocacy group appears to have become inaccessible through some networks in Hong Kong, raising fears of mainland-style internet censorship in the Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,458,50,48,53,351,86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-internet","category-law","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\/41739","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41740,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41739\/revisions\/41740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}