{"id":26823,"date":"2011-09-15T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26823"},"modified":"2011-09-15T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T11:43:10","slug":"ecuador-seven-radio-broadcasters-face-sanctions-for-airing-freedom-of-expression-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Seven radio stations face sanctions for airing free speech debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"index on Censorship - Ecuador\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ecuador\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecuadorian<\/a>\u00a0Telecommunications Superintendency has announced it <a title=\"Knight Center - 7 radio broadcasters in Ecuador face sanctions for airing freedom of expression debate  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/7-radio-broadcasters-ecuador-face-sanctions-airing-freedom-expression-debate\" target=\"_blank\">would seek to punish<\/a> seven radio broadcasters for a simultaneous broadcast of a debate on free speech without first notifying the authorities. On Ecuador&#8217;s Independence Day (10 August), Ecuadoradio, a broadcaster owned by the El Comercio group that publishes the eponymous newspaper,\u00a0organised a debate between several radio broadcasters\u00a0to discuss <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Rafael Correa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/rafael-correa\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Rafael Correa<\/a>&#8216;s proposed\u00a0<a title=\"Knight Center - Ecuador considering bill to limit business interests of media companies  \" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/ecuador-considering-bill-limit-business-interests-media-companies\" target=\"_blank\">communications bill<\/a>, which would limit business interests of media companies and promotes government regulation of such companies.\u00a0On the same day,\u00a0several major\u00a0Ecuadorian\u00a0newspapers ran the same cover, titled\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ecuador: President criticises press, papers call for free expression\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/08\/ecuador-president-criticises-press-papers-call-for-free-expression\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;For Freedom of Expression&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ecuadorian\u00a0Telecommunications Superintendency has announced it would seek to punish seven radio broadcasters for a simultaneous broadcast of a debate on free speech without first notifying the authorities. On Ecuador&#8217;s Independence Day (10 August), Ecuadoradio, a broadcaster owned by the El Comercio group that publishes the eponymous newspaper,\u00a0organised a debate between several radio broadcasters\u00a0to discuss [&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":[7423,743,727,2457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823"}],"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=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26852,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions\/26852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}