{"id":547,"date":"2009-07-06T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-07-06T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:30:32","slug":"shut-down-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Shut Down the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and China show their colors nice and bright during troubles. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so when a government tries to stop communication and the press during troubled times, we know that the government is diseased.<\/p>\n<p>Urumqi has lost its Internet rights. We just saw this in Iran, so it&#8217;s no surprise that another brutal dictatorship (one that the US considers most favorable to trade with) pulls the same crap.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my impression that the Han Chinese feel that their government is generally moving in the right direction. Sure, freedom is coming slowly, but it&#8217;s coming. The Internet exists, so the government can&#8217;t keep people completely in the dark. That&#8217;s true, but God knows they&#8217;re trying.<\/p>\n<p>I guarantee that people in Beijing are hearing a story of Uighur violence and rioting, as opposed to brutal suppression by the vicious regime in power.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the Chinese government (as I may have mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=66\">before<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and China show their colors nice and bright during troubles. Sunshine is the best disinfectant, so when a government tries to stop communication and the press during troubled times, we know that the government is diseased. Urumqi has lost its Internet rights. We just saw this in Iran, so it&#8217;s no surprise that another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}