{"id":45943,"date":"2022-03-10T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45943"},"modified":"2022-03-10T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T06:22:16","slug":"advocates-to-wh-dont-disconnect-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45943","title":{"rendered":"Advocates to WH: Don\u2019t disconnect Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of over 40 human and digital rights organizations published an open letter to the Biden administration Thursday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qdshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmvvvvhg_erqrbbysyfrhthqbtqhq.html?a=&amp;b=47884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qdshyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmvvvvhg_erqrbbysyfrhthqbtqhq.html?a%3D%26b%3D47884&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1647053484109000&amp;usg=AOvVaw24boLc0nkULE5dBY2Idjt6\">cautioning against limiting<\/a>\u00a0Russian\u2019s access to the internet in response to the country\u2019s invasion in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Two major internet providers have already cut service in Russia since its Feb. 24 incursion into eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Several software and telecommunications companies have also halted sales, a combined removal of services that threatens to leave Russian citizens without access to international services.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure on other crucial technology providers to pull out, including from Ukrainian officials, has only risen as the war has continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e write to express our concerns about growing calls to interfere with the Russian people\u2019s access to the internet, which we fear will hurt individuals attempting to organize in opposition to the war, report openly and honestly on events in Russia, and access information about what is happening in Ukraine and abroad,\u201d wrote the groups, including Access Now, Human Rights Watch and the Wikimedia Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese measures could also unnecessarily facilitate further repression by the Russian government,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of over 40 human&#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":[11,12,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45943","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=45943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45944,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45943\/revisions\/45944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}