{"id":1429,"date":"2011-01-25T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2011-01-25T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:07:56","slug":"early-lessons-from-the-tunisian-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"Early Lessons from the Tunisian Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/01\/tunisian-news-round\" target=\"_blank\">EFF<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/01\/eff-calls-immediate-action-defend-tunisian\">post<\/a> about the increasingly draconian and desperate measures the Tunisian  government was taking to censor bloggers, journalists, and activists  online was rapidly made irrelevant by subsequent events. Over the next  few days, Tunisian dictator El Abidine Ben Ali promised not to run for  re-election in 2014, then offered widespread reforms, including freedom  of expression on the Internet, and finally stepped down from power and  fled the country.  The steps that EFF called on Facebook, Google, and  Yahoo to take in order to protect the privacy and safety of their  Tunisian users soon lost their urgency. For now, Tunisians are  experiencing unprecedented freedom online after years of extensive  government filtering and censorship of websites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2011\/01\/tunisian-news-round\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: EFF Last week&#8217;s post about the increasingly draconian and desperate measures the Tunisian government was taking to censor bloggers, journalists, and activists online was rapidly made irrelevant by subsequent events. Over the next few days, Tunisian dictator El Abidine Ben Ali promised not to run for re-election in 2014, then offered widespread reforms, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}