{"id":19995,"date":"2013-12-23T05:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/labour-government-practised-state-censorship-says-minister\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T05:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:43:00","slug":"labour-government-practised-state-censorship-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/labour-government-practised-state-censorship-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour government practised &#8216;state censorship&#8217;, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Brandon Lewis, minister for local government, has said that the    Labour government blocked all access to the Daily Star website,    a ban that the Conservatives have lifted.  <\/p>\n<p>    In November the Conservatives were themselves accused of web    censorship when they took the unusual step of deleting the    entire archive of documents from their national website.  <\/p>\n<p>    The party wiped every article, speech and press release    released before the last election from their website leading    Labour to accuse them of trying to hide their broken promises    and failed policy with a cynical stunt.  <\/p>\n<p>    The documents contained pre-2010 election pledges on cutting    inheritance, not imposing 'pointless reorganisations' of the    NHS It also included the green promise that if you vote blue,    go green which could be potentially embarrassing in the wake    of recent pledges to slash green levies on energy bills.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Conservatives argue that they are simply making it easier    for people to quickly and easily access information on the    site.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/telegraph.feedsportal.com\/c\/32726\/f\/534871\/s\/351f7b60\/sc\/7\/l\/0L0Stelegraph0O0Cnews0Cpolitics0Clabour0C10A53430A60CLabour0Egovernment0Epractised0Estate0Ecensorship0Esays0Eminister0Bhtml\/story01.htm\" title=\"Labour government practised 'state censorship', says minister\">Labour government practised 'state censorship', says minister<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Brandon Lewis, minister for local government, has said that the Labour government blocked all access to the Daily Star website, a ban that the Conservatives have lifted. In November the Conservatives were themselves accused of web censorship when they took the unusual step of deleting the entire archive of documents from their national website. The party wiped every article, speech and press release released before the last election from their website leading Labour to accuse them of trying to hide their broken promises and failed policy with a cynical stunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/labour-government-practised-state-censorship-says-minister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}