{"id":32860,"date":"2012-02-13T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32860"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:55:46","slug":"iran-internet-censorship-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32860","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Internet censorship increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet censorship has <a title=\"EFF: Iran Ratchets Up Its Internet Censorship\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/02\/iran-ratchets-its-internet-censorship\" target=\"_blank\">dramatically increased<\/a> in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> over the last week. On 7 February, internet users in Iran began reporting an increase in the\u00a0blocking and filtering of certain kinds of internet traffic in the country. Many users complained of not being able to access HTTPS websites, the secure and encrypted version of HTTP protocol.\u00a0Many banks, Google services, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft Hotmail use\u00a0HTTPS to protect private data.\u00a0Though there have been no official announcements regarding the changes, it is widely believed to be the first step towards a <a title=\"Guardian: Iran clamps down on internet use\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/05\/iran-clamps-down-internet-use\" target=\"_blank\">Halal internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet censorship has dramatically increased in Iran over the last week. On 7 February, internet users in Iran began reporting an increase in the\u00a0blocking and filtering of certain kinds of internet traffic in the country. Many users complained of not being able to access HTTPS websites, the secure and encrypted version of HTTP protocol.\u00a0Many banks, [&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":[4883,584,4060,585],"tags":[103,346,4292,211,7359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860"}],"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=32860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80205,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32860\/revisions\/80205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}