{"id":20263,"date":"2019-11-15T08:32:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2019-11-15T08:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:32:08","slug":"a-call-from-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20263","title":{"rendered":"A CALL FROM THE POPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis called on major tech companies Thursday to take action to protect children from viewing pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The pope spoke at a Vatican conference with religious leaders and representatives of tech companies, telling the tech giants they must regulate content on their platforms more aggressively, The Associated Press\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pvldwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckcmddyc_sjkbmmvrvtbmsvssmkcs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pvldwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckcmddyc_sjkbmmvrvtbmsvssmkcs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573920816729000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLd6pmB0mL_ZUSFVzAU9vYsh96EA\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Francis called out Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google and others to take responsibility to guard children from pornography that could affect their emotional and sexual development, according to the news wire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a need to ensure that investors and managers remain accountable, so that the good of minors and society is not sacrificed to profit,&#8221; he said according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The pope told the audience at the &#8220;Promoting Digital Child Dignity&#8221; conference that these companies should implement age verification technology and artificial intelligence to remove child porn from their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is now clear that they cannot consider themselves completely unaccountable vis-a-vis the services they provide for their customers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So I make an urgent appeal to them to assume their responsibility toward minors, their integrity and their future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis called on major tech&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20264,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions\/20264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}