{"id":36242,"date":"2021-06-10T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36242"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:14:45","slug":"state-dept-urges-nigeria-to-reverse-twitter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36242","title":{"rendered":"State Dept. urges Nigeria to reverse Twitter ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday condemned Nigeria\u2019s move to suspend Twitter in the country after its president had a post removed by the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnduly restricting the ability of Nigerians to report, gather, and disseminate opinions and information has no place in a democracy,\u201d State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement. \u201cFreedom of expression and access to information both online and offline are foundational to prosperous and secure democratic societies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter deleted a post by President Muhammadu Buhari last week for violating its policy on abusive behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The post appeared to threaten secessionist groups in the southeast of Nigeria that had attacked government offices, which the platform determined should be taken down.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the government announced via Twitter that the platform would be suspended. The next day the country\u2019s attorney general announced that Nigerians dodging that ban would be prosecuted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Thursday condemned&#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":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242","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=36242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36243,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242\/revisions\/36243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}