{"id":103229,"date":"2020-03-04T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/how-governments-shut-down-the-internet-wsj"},"modified":"2020-03-04T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T08:42:37","slug":"how-governments-shut-down-the-internet-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/how-governments-shut-down-the-internet-wsj","title":{"rendered":"How Governments Shut Down the Internet | WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53q3gscB7FM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Governments around the world are shutting down the internet, saying it\u2019s needed to prevent protests or cheating on exams. But critics say blocking expression and access to information violates human rights. Here\u2019s how internet shutdowns work. Illustration: Crystal Tai<\/p>\n<p>More from the Wall Street Journal:<br \/> Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/WSJ.com\">WSJ.com<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\">http:\/\/www.wsj.com<\/a><br \/> Visit the WSJ Video Center: <a href=\"https:\/\/wsj.com\/video\">https:\/\/wsj.com\/video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/wsj\/videos\/<\/a><br \/> On Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ<\/a><br \/> On Snapchat: <a href=\"https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM\">https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/2ratjSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#WSJ #Technology #Explained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments around the world are shutting down the internet, saying it\u2019s needed to prevent protests or cheating on exams. But critics say blocking expression and access to information violates human rights. Here\u2019s how internet shutdowns work. Illustration: Crystal Tai More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http:\/\/www.wsj.com Visit the WSJ Video Center: https:\/\/wsj.com\/video On [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}