{"id":8586,"date":"2015-02-17T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:59","slug":"the-anti-information-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/17\/the-anti-information-age\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Information Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/02\/government-censorship-21st-century-internet\/385528\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/3934a342e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;line-height: 23.2000007629395px\"><strong>This combination of traditional and innovative methods has created a more varied menu of censorship than ever before<\/strong>. Stealth censorship appeals to authoritarian governments that want to appear like democracies\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor at least not like old-style dictatorships. In illiberal democracies, of which there are a\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #00598c;font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;line-height: 23.2000007629395px\" href=\"https:\/\/freedomhouse.org\/blog\/redefining-democracy-undermine-democracy#.VODObofxtXc\">growing number<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;line-height: 23.2000007629395px\">, the government aims to keep a grip on the news media while concealing its fingerprints. A global survey of attacks on the press today shows governments mixing direct and indirect pressures as part of a booming emerging market in information control.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/02\/government-censorship-21st-century-internet\/385528\/\">The Anti-Information Age &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: Censorship is flourishing in the information age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}