{"id":25574,"date":"2011-08-15T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25574"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:19:48","slug":"bolivia-controversial-telecommunications-law-comes-into-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25574","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia: Controversial telecommunications law comes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship: Bolivia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/bolivia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bolivian<\/a> president Evo Morales has <a title=\"Knight Center: Journalists balk as new Bolivian telelcommunications law goes into effect \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/journalists-balk-president-evo-morales-promotoes-new-bolivian-telelcommunications-law\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a new Telecommunications, Information Technology and Communication Law that establishes new rules for the distribution of radio and television frequencies, the broadcasting of presidential messages, and authorises wiretapping in exceptional cases. Some critics say the law, which was <a title=\"Knight Center: Bolivia approves law to increase state control of media, permit wiretapping\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/bolivia-approves-law-increase-state-control-media-permit-wiretapping\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> at the end of July, will give the state de facto control over 67 percent of the radio and television frequencies due to the Morales administration&#8217;s close ties to indigenous and community groups. \u00a0Meanwhile, journalism organisations have <a title=\"Knight Center: Journalists balk as new Bolivian telelcommunications law goes into effect  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/journalists-balk-president-evo-morales-promotoes-new-bolivian-telelcommunications-law\" target=\"_blank\">denounced<\/a> the law, saying it undermines freedom of expression and that wiretapping will\u00a0affect the public&#8217;s right to privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolivian president Evo Morales has announced a new Telecommunications, Information Technology and Communication Law that establishes new rules for the distribution of radio and television frequencies, the broadcasting of presidential messages, and authorises wiretapping in exceptional cases. Some critics say the law, which was approved at the end of July, will give the state de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[1473,3642,727,3641,3640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25590,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25574\/revisions\/25590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}