{"id":26883,"date":"2011-09-16T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26883"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:19","slug":"burma-censors-unblock-several-banned-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26883","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Censors unblock several banned websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censors in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Burma\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/burma\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burma<\/a> this week <a title=\"Forbes\/AP - Myanmar authorities unblock some banned websites \" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2011\/09\/16\/general-as-myanmar-internet-freedom_8683160.html\" target=\"_blank\">unblocked<\/a> the websites of international media outlets such as the Voice of America (VOA) and the BBC, as well the Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio Free Asia and YouTube. The unannounced move is the latest step taken by the nation&#8217;s new leaders to boost hope that authoritarian rule here could be softening. In August, state newspapers <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Burma: State newspapers drop slogans attacking BBC, VOA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/08\/burma-state-newspapers-drop-slogans-attacking-bbc-voa\/\" target=\"_blank\">dropped half-page slogans<\/a> accusing the BBC and VOA of \u201csowing hatred among the people\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censors in Burma this week unblocked the websites of international media outlets such as the Voice of America (VOA) and the BBC, as well the Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio Free Asia and YouTube. The unannounced move is the latest step taken by the nation&#8217;s new leaders to boost hope that authoritarian rule here could [&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":[4883,584,585,581],"tags":[7353,103,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883"}],"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=26883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26894,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions\/26894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}