{"id":654018,"date":"2013-04-23T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=459672"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T17:50:18","slug":"the-internet-isnt-as-open-as-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654018","title":{"rendered":"The Internet isn\u2019t as open as it used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/internet-freedom-censorship-google-apple-459672\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/internet-http.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Internet isn&#039;t as open as it used to be\" title=\"Internet\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The Internet isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/22\/google-eric-schmidt-internet-freedom-future-456454\/\">the outlet of freedom and prosperity it used to be<\/a>. The truth of the matter is that big name companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> control and censor what we see online. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tristanlouis\/2013\/04\/20\/the-internet-is-drowing\/\">As noted by Tristan Louis at <em>Forbes<\/em><\/a>, an individual can&#8217;t reach a majority of Internet users without the approval of a large company. If Google or Apple deem an application isn&#8217;t suitable, they can keep it out of their mobile app stores \u2014 and the same can happen with a webpage if it&#8217;s unlisted on Google or even Bing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/internet-freedom-censorship-google-apple-459672\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/C4vbaLZ0qDs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet isn&#8217;t the outlet of freedom and prosperity it used to be. The truth of the matter is that big name companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft control and censor what we see online. As noted by Tristan Louis at Forbes, an individual can&#8217;t reach a majority of Internet users without the approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}