{"id":6249,"date":"2011-07-20T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2011-07-20T11:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T10:26:10","slug":"what-do-these-web-sites-have-in-common-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"What do these web sites have in common? (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I did<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6232\"> a posting<\/a> in which I listed a number of Left-leaning web sites, asked what they had in common, and promised the answer today.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that all these\u00a0 Left-leaning political and trade union sites are being  blocked by the public wifi system at St Pancras railway station in central London.\u00a0  I know this because one of my techie friends spent some time there checking out access to various sites (I&#8217;ve only mentioned a selection of those he found to be blocked).<\/p>\n<p>While I accept that the wifi system is a service provided by a private  company who are entitled to block whichever sites they like, the practice raises some important questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are so many innocuous sites are blocked?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a political bias in which sites are blocked?<\/li>\n<li>Should sites which are blocked have the opportunity to make representations to have the block lifted?<\/li>\n<li>Should users of the wifi system be advised that blocking is in place and the criteria for such blocking?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I did a posting in which I listed a number of Left-leaning web sites, asked what they had in common, and promised the answer today. The answer is that all these\u00a0 Left-leaning political and trade union sites are being blocked by the public wifi system at St Pancras railway station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}