{"id":6966,"date":"2024-05-26T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T17:02:56","slug":"x-pakistan-ban-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2024\/05\/26\/x-pakistan-ban-2\/","title":{"rendered":"X Pakistan Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vpn\/how-pakistans-4-month-x-ban-is-changing-the-internet\">Chiara Castro, TechRadar, How Pakistan&#8217;s 4-month X ban is changing the internet, 25 May 2024<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Pakistan authorities began blocking social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) on February 17, 2024, about a week after completely restricting the internet before and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/cyber-security\/pakistan-restricts-internet-during-election-day-2024\">during election day<\/a>\u00a0as an alleged &#8220;security measure.&#8221; However, while these large-scale disruptions lasted just a few days, the X ban is still ongoing at the time of writing, forcing citizens to turn to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vpn\/best-vpn\">best VPN<\/a>\u00a0services to access the app.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiara Castro, TechRadar, How Pakistan&#8217;s 4-month X ban is changing the internet, 25 May 2024. &#8220;Pakistan authorities began blocking social platform X (formerly known as Twitter) on February 17, 2024, about a week after completely restricting the internet before and\u00a0during election day\u00a0as an alleged &#8220;security measure.&#8221; However, while these large-scale disruptions lasted just a few&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[712,130,576],"tags":[58,851,57,577],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-pakistan-internet","category-x","tag-censorship","tag-censorshp","tag-pakistan","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","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=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}