{"id":28569,"date":"2011-11-02T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=28569"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:55:58","slug":"uk-david-cameron-cybersecurity-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=28569","title":{"rendered":"UK: Disorder no excuse to clamp down on internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Associated press | Disorder no excuse to clamp down on Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iNzfkVpxnLmBcgyvG4z0Zi3q0Dzg?docId=4a79d044eaff469fa55143adb3f1cf19\" target=\"_blank\">Governments must not<\/a> crack down on internet and mobile phone networks during times of unrest, the <a title=\"Index on Censorship | UK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/UK\" target=\"_blank\">British<\/a>\u00a0Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. Speaking at a two-day international <a title=\"FCO | Conference on Cyberspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fco.gov.uk\/en\/global-issues\/london-conference-cyberspace\/\" target=\"_blank\">cybersecurity conferenc<\/a>e in London, Cameron said that cybersecurity should not be an &#8220;excuse for censorship or to deny their people the opportunities that the internet represents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <a title=\"Reuters | UK,US talk tough on web freedom at cyber talks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/01\/technology-cyber-conference-idUSL5E7M13S620111101\" target=\"_blank\">same conference<\/a>, Index on Censorship CEO <a title=\"Twitter | John Kampfner\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/johnkampfner\" target=\"_blank\">John Kampfner<\/a> said: &#8220;as soon as our own Western-style stability of the state is called into question then freedom of expression is expendable. There should be one rule for all, including Western governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governments must not crack down on internet and mobile phone networks during times of unrest, the British\u00a0Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday. Speaking at a two-day international cybersecurity conference in London, Cameron said that cybersecurity should not be an &#8220;excuse for censorship or to deny their people the opportunities that the internet represents&#8221;. Speaking at [&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":[4883,4059,584,585],"tags":[3634,3945,687,401,3623,1721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569"}],"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=28569"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30699,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569\/revisions\/30699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}