{"id":990,"date":"2017-09-26T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T09:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isoc.si\/?p=990"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T08:45:03","slug":"internet-society-statement-on-internet-blocking-measures-in-catalonia-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Internet Society statement on Internet blocking measures in Catalonia, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ISOC has\u00a0\u00a0published a statement expressing the\u00a0\u00a0concern about measures<\/div>\n<div>taken in Spain to block access to certain websites and, perhaps more<\/div>\n<div>concerning, to require a top-level domain (TLD) operator to engage in<\/div>\n<div>content monitoring and blocking.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is a tense time politically in Spain with an independence<\/div>\n<div>referendum having been called for October 1 in the Catalonia region<\/div>\n<div>which the central Spanish government views as illegal. We do not want to<\/div>\n<div>get involved in the politics of the situation, but are concerned by the<\/div>\n<div>manner in which the Internet is being restricted. As we have repeatedly<\/div>\n<div>stated, we do not see Internet blocking \/ shut downs as effective<\/div>\n<div>measures and believe they cause far more collateral damage to the<\/div>\n<div>economy and society.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/news\/statements\/2017\/internet-society-statement-internet-blocking-measures-catalonia-spain\/\">https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/news\/statements\/2017\/internet-society-statement-internet-blocking-measures-catalonia-spain\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISOC has\u00a0\u00a0published a statement expressing the\u00a0\u00a0concern about measures taken in Spain to block access to certain websites and, perhaps more concerning, to require a top-level domain (TLD) operator to engage in content monitoring and blocking. This is a tense time politically in Spain with an independence referendum having been called for October 1 in the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/?p=990\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[80,84,82,81,17,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isoc.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}