{"id":4648,"date":"2023-03-12T21:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2023-03-18T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T21:51:58","slug":"pakistan-and-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/03\/12\/pakistan-and-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan and \u2018Free Speech\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/authors\/1013\/amber-rahim-shamsi\">Amber Rahim Shamsi<\/a>, Dawn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1741547\/bleep-bleep-pemras-wobbly-dance-with-free-speech\">Bleep Bleep: Pemra\u2019s wobbly dance with free speech<\/a>, 11 March 2023, \u201cHow do you contain anger, accusation, propaganda and political hyperbole? And what do you with all the people and institutions who feel insulted? Where does information end and hate speech begin? The Lahore High Court will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1741220\">need to make that decision<\/a>\u00a0as it constitutes a larger bench to determine whether a leader of a political party with a digital media juggernaut can be banned on the mainstream. His accusations will flow through WhatsApp, Facebook and TikTok.\u201d. Opinion\/analysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Rahim Shamsi, Dawn, Bleep Bleep: Pemra\u2019s wobbly dance with free speech, 11 March 2023, \u201cHow do you contain anger, accusation, propaganda and political hyperbole? And what do you with all the people and institutions who feel insulted? Where does information end and hate speech begin? The Lahore High Court will\u00a0need to make that decision\u00a0as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,130,20],"tags":[58,132,78],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-pakistan-internet","category-politics","tag-censorship","tag-pakistan-internet","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}