{"id":8914,"date":"2015-07-03T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:54","slug":"research-shows-internet-shutdowns-and-state-violence-go-hand-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/03\/research-shows-internet-shutdowns-and-state-violence-go-hand-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/06\/research-shows-internet-shutdowns-and-state-violence-go-hand-hand-syria\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eff-og-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EFF has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/11\/syria-goes-dark\">noted<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/05\/syrian-internet-goes-dark-leaving-questions-and-uncertainty-0\">protested<\/a> when authorities\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/06\/worrying-trend-shutting-internet-access-countries-limited-connectivity\">deliberately cut off<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Internet access in times of unrest.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0As a restraint on the freedom of expression of those affected, communication blackouts during protests are unconscionable.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2015\/02\/24\/internet-access-as-a-weapon\/\">recent research<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Anita Gohdes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim, <strong>suggests that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/06\/research-shows-internet-shutdowns-and-state-violence-go-hand-hand-syria\">Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research suggests that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression by authorities.<\/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":[782,1083,1082,1084],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-eff","tag-internet-shutdowns","tag-repression","tag-state-repression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8917,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}