{"id":10772,"date":"2012-05-23T17:09:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2012-05-23T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:09:39","slug":"mp-wants-facebooktwitter-and-other-social-media-unblocked-at-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/mp-wants-facebooktwitter-and-other-social-media-unblocked-at-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"MP wants Facebook,Twitter and other social media unblocked at parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A lawmaker in Malawi has appealed to government to enable the legislators start accessing Facebook at his workplace (parliament premises) years after the facility was blocked.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/logo_nospaces1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/logo_nospaces1-300x75.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo_nospaces1\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10780\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMr. Joly Kalelo, representing Lilogwe City East, said it was unfortunate that at parliament building the lawmakers can not access Facebook, Twitter or Nyasatimes which were blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Nyasatimes is a sensational Malawi online tabloid that was blocked because of its anti Mutharika regime stance.<\/p>\n<p>The MP said blocking of social media should not be tolerated in Malawi in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>One of parliament staff corroborated the story that social sites like Facebook and twitter were blocked at parliament premises.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu said the matter was new to him but said the matter can be better sorted out by the authorities at parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter and facebook are popular sites used by many Malawi urbanites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawmaker in Malawi has appealed to government to enable the legislators start accessing Facebook at his workplace (parliament premises) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1771],"tags":[1934,340,868,258,1208,590],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-face-of-malawi","tag-lilongwe","tag-media","tag-malawi","tag-nyasatimes","tag-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}