{"id":6959,"date":"2010-01-06T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=6959"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:21:04","slug":"wordpress-removes-blog-after-libel-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=6959","title":{"rendered":"WordPress removes blog after libel allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular west of England site The Bristol Blogger was temporarily removed by blogging platform WordPress after it received a complaint from former University of the West of England vice-chancellor Howard newby.<br \/>\nIn a statement given to local radio station Star FM, WordPress said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We received a complaint that there were a number of false and defamatory statements on the blog. This was checked and we agreed with the complaint.<br \/>\nThe blog was was suspended to remove the material from view.<br \/>\nThe blog owner has been in touch, the blog is not now suspended and he has details of the statements which need removing.<br \/>\nThis has to be done today.<\/p>\n<p>He has been advised that if he disputes this and wishes the statements he made to be allowed on the blog then he must settle the issue outside of wordpress.com first.<\/p>\n<p>We do not censor blogs but where defamation has occurred we are obliged to act as stated in our Terms of Service.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the specified statements we have no issue with any other parts of the blog right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol247.com\/2010\/01\/05\/bristol-blogger-site-taken-down-over-defamation-claims\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular west of England site The Bristol Blogger was temporarily removed by blogging platform WordPress after it received a complaint from former University of the West of England vice-chancellor Howard newby. In a statement given to local radio station Star FM, WordPress said: We received a complaint that there were a number of false and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[584,585,581,21],"tags":[661,1660,1661,1658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26549,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions\/26549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}