{"id":46601,"date":"2018-06-24T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/24\/shooting-the-messenger-the-chilling-effect-of-criminalising-journalism-andrew-fowler\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T22:50:00","slug":"shooting-the-messenger-the-chilling-effect-of-criminalising-journalism-andrew-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=46601","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the messenger: the &#039;chilling effect&#039; of criminalising journalism | Andrew Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clamour in the west is for more controls on those who use the internet for communications, but little control of governments that use it for surveillanceAt a time when journalists have never been more needed to explain the complexities of an increasingly integrated world, they have never been more under threat: jailed in increasing numbers by some of the more authoritarian administrations, threatened with prosecution in the countries which have democratic governments. There is a real possibility that the overreach of national security laws in the west will damage the very commodity that heightened internet surveillance is supposedly designed to protect: security and liberty. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2018\/jun\/24\/shooting-the-messenger-the-chilling-effect-of-criminalising-journalism\" target=\"_blank\">Shooting the messenger: the &#039;chilling effect&#039; of criminalising journalism | Andrew Fowler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clamour in the west is for more controls on those who use the internet for communications, but little control of governments that use it for surveillanceAt a time when journalists have never been more needed to explain the complexities of an increasingly integrated world, they have never been more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}