{"id":136873,"date":"2019-05-23T01:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=245580"},"modified":"2019-05-23T01:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:29:59","slug":"riots-prompt-indonesian-crackdown-on-social-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/23\/riots-prompt-indonesian-crackdown-on-social-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Riots prompt Indonesian crackdown on social apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tThe Indonesian government restricted access to certain features on social media and messaging apps in the wake of violent protests in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter were all impacted as officials moved to slow the spread of hoaxes and false news which might trigger an \u201cemotional response\u201d from users.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, officials said the limitations apply to the sharing of videos and images; SMS and voice features remained enabled.<\/p>\n<p>Rudiantara, the country\u2019s Minister of Communication and Information, said the bulk of negative content and hoaxes posted on social media &#8220;on Facebook, on Instagram is in the form of videos, memes or images,&#8221; adding all Indonesian users will experience a slowdown in downloading and uploading such content.<\/p>\n<p>The minister explained officials opted for blanket limitations because it would be too time consuming to identify and take down troublesome accounts one at a time. He added the restrictions would be temporary, but did not say when they would be lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s move comes after riots erupted in Jakarta following the re-election of Indonesian president Joko Widodo. Associated Press reported six people were killed today (22 May) after the situation turned violent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indonesian government restricted access to certain features on social media and messaging apps in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/riots-prompt-indonesian-crackdown-on-social-apps\/\">Riots prompt Indonesian crackdown on social apps<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/23\/riots-prompt-indonesian-crackdown-on-social-apps\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,5238,2,2084,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-zBD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136876,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136873\/revisions\/136876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}