{"id":33028,"date":"2012-02-16T11:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33028"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:52:48","slug":"syria-text-messages-blocke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33028","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Protesters&#8217; text messages blocked using Irish equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Syria\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian<\/a> government has ordered text messages containing politically sensitive words <a title=\"Bloomberg: Syria Disrupts Text Messaging of Protesters With Made-in-Dublin Equipment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-02-15\/syria-blocks-texts-with-dublin-made-gear.html\" target=\"_blank\">to be blocked<\/a>. Sources familiar with the country&#8217;s filtering system say that Irish technology is being used to prevent the delivery of text messages including \u00a0words such as &#8221;\u00a0revolution&#8221; or &#8220;demonstration&#8221;. The country&#8217;s largest mobile phone company\u00a0Syriatel Mobile Telecom SA have allegedly used\u00a0blocking equipment from\u00a0Cellusys Ltd, a privately-held company based in Dublin.\u00a0Since public unrest in Syria erupted last year, text messages have been a crucial tool for protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian government has ordered text messages containing politically sensitive words to be blocked. Sources familiar with the country&#8217;s filtering system say that Irish technology is being used to prevent the delivery of text messages including \u00a0words such as &#8221;\u00a0revolution&#8221; or &#8220;demonstration&#8221;. The country&#8217;s largest mobile phone company\u00a0Syriatel Mobile Telecom SA have allegedly used\u00a0blocking equipment [&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":[584,4060,585],"tags":[346,212,1724,7391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028"}],"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=33028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33050,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33028\/revisions\/33050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}