{"id":6415,"date":"2021-10-25T21:45:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T21:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2021-10-25T21:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T21:45:03","slug":"cnn-shuts-down-access-to-facebook-pages-in-australia-after-court-ruling-holding-media-outlets-liable-for-commenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6415","title":{"rendered":"CNN Shuts Down Access to Facebook Pages in Australia After Court Ruling Holding Media Outlets Liable for Commenters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In response to Australian court decisions holding media companies legally liable for the comments by users, CNN has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/cnn-restricts-access-to-facebook-pages-in-australia-11632868267?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blocked access to some of its Facebook pages<\/a>&nbsp;from users in that country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an inevitable outcome of a bad decision and a reminder of why it&#8217;s important not to try to force government-mandated moderation policies onto massive social media platforms that will inevitably lead to either censorship or lack of access to information.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1gRYdTqftn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/09\/29\/cnn-shuts-down-access-to-facebook-pages-in-australia-after-court-ruling-holding-media-outlets-liable-for-commenters\/\">CNN Shuts Down Access to Facebook Pages in Australia After Court Ruling Holding Media Outlets Liable for Commenters<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;CNN Shuts Down Access to Facebook Pages in Australia After Court Ruling Holding Media Outlets Liable for Commenters&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/09\/29\/cnn-shuts-down-access-to-facebook-pages-in-australia-after-court-ruling-holding-media-outlets-liable-for-commenters\/embed\/#?secret=7pFrn5Zq2v#?secret=1gRYdTqftn\" data-secret=\"1gRYdTqftn\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In response to Australian court decisions holding media companies legally liable for the comments by users, CNN has blocked access to some of its Facebook pages from users in that country.<\/p>\n<p>This is an inevitable outcome of a bad decision and a reminder of why it&#8217;s important not to try to force government-mandated moderation policies onto massive social media platforms that will inevitably lead to either censorship or lack of access to information.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[187,91,761,411,551,328],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-australia","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-policy","tag-regulations","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}