{"id":27638,"date":"2011-10-07T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27638"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:56:03","slug":"slovakia-new-draft-law-threatens-internet-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27638","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia: New draft law threatens internet freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A draft law <a title=\"Global voices - Slovakia: New draft law threatens internet freedom\" href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2011\/10\/07\/slovakia-new-draft-law-threatens-internet-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been published <\/a>by the <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Slovakia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Slovakia\" target=\"_blank\">Slovakian<\/a> Ministry of Finance which could result in the blocking of some web servers. The bill would mean that\u00a0web servers that provide online gambling without a license would be put on a list, which would be updated twice a month, and\u00a0<a title=\"Ekonomika - State wants to censor web gambling\" href=\"http:\/\/ekonomika.sme.sk\/c\/6050812\/stat-chce-cenzurovat-hazard-na-webe.html\" target=\"_blank\">blocked<\/a>\u00a0by internet providers. Critics have warned that under this law, Facebook would also be blocked completely, due to the availability of online roulette and and poker games. An <a title=\"Changenet - online petition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.changenet.sk\/?section=kampane&amp;x=589565\" target=\"_blank\">online petition<\/a> created by\u00a0<a title=\"SOIT - Society for open information technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.soit.sk\/sk\/aktualne\/oit-doma\/2011-09-10\/139-danovy-urad-bratislava-bude-moct-cenzurovat-vas-internet\" target=\"_blank\">Society for Open Information Technologies<\/a>\u00a0(SOIT) has been signed by thousands of citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A draft law has been published by the Slovakian Ministry of Finance which could result in the blocking of some web servers. The bill would mean that\u00a0web servers that provide online gambling without a license would be put on a list, which would be updated twice a month, and\u00a0blocked\u00a0by internet providers. Critics have warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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],"tags":[103,3881,3003,7357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27751,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27638\/revisions\/27751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}