{"id":36552,"date":"2021-06-17T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36552"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T01:11:29","slug":"snap-scraps-speed-filter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36552","title":{"rendered":"SNAP SCRAPS SPEED FILTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat will be removing the &#8220;speed filter&#8221; that has been linked to several car crashes, a spokeswoman for the company confirmed to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that \u201cnothing is more important than the safety of our Snapchat community,\u201d adding that it had previously disabled the feature at certain driving speeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the sticker is barely used by Snapchatters, and in light of that, we are removing it altogether,\u201d the spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>News of the filter\u2019s removal was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tppjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrlzwjjbl_esdrbbysyfrhsyqhhtpq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tppjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrlzwjjbl_esdrbbysyfrhsyqhhtpq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624054030868000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEg3V5aLcbq45DY8Ky8UeB5cv3_ew\">first reported by NPR<\/a>, which noted that the company began removing the feature this week. However, it may take a couple weeks before it\u2019s unavailable to everyone who uses the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat will be removing the &#8220;speed&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552","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=36552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36553,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36552\/revisions\/36553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}