{"id":13930,"date":"2012-02-01T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13930"},"modified":"2012-02-01T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T03:35:07","slug":"senate-calls-for-obama-to-push-iran-internet-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/senate-calls-for-obama-to-push-iran-internet-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Calls for Obama to Push Iran Internet Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&#8217;s latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual &#8220;crippling sanctions,&#8221; calls on President Obama to &#8220;develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the Internet. They use a content control system to do so, similar to the censorship regime of China or, a bit closer to home, the one that the US would&#8217;ve created under SOPA and its Senate counterpart, PIPA. <\/p>\n<p>The resolution, the Johnson-Shelby Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Human Rights Act of 2012, is sponsored primarily by Sen. Tim Johnson (D &#8211; SD).<\/p>\n<p>This is noteworthy because Sen. Johnson is also a co-sponsor for PIPA. Apparently freeing Iran&#8217;s Internet and unfreeing America&#8217;s are not mutually exclusive goals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate&#8217;s latest in an interminable number of anti-Iran resolutions, in addition to including the usual &#8220;crippling sanctions,&#8221; calls on President Obama to &#8220;develop a more robust Internet freedom strategy for Iran.&#8221; Iran, like a number of nations, does censor the Internet. They use a content control system to do so, similar to the censorship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13931,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13930\/revisions\/13931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13930"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}