{"id":2386,"date":"2016-02-14T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2016-02-14T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:15:11","slug":"indonesia-urges-facebook-whatsapp-to-remove-same-sex-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2386","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia urges Facebook, Whatsapp to remove same-sex emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The government in Indonesia has begun to urge Facebook and Whatsapp to remove same-sex-themed emojis that the social media companies have released in recent years. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2016\/02\/11\/indonesia-tells-facebook-and-whatsapp-to-remove-gay-emojis\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pro-government newspaper Republika, reports that Line removed the emojis following complaints from users.<\/p>\n<p>The government?s information ministry spokesman Ismail Cawidu said: ?No social media may show items that smack of LGBT. Because we have our own rules, like religious values and norms, which they must respect.?<\/p>\n<p>Despite homosexuality being legal in Indonesia, conservative attitudes sometimes prevail in the country which has a Muslim majority.<\/p>\n<p>Following the threats, Cawidu did not specify punishments for social media platforms which do not comply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The government in Indonesia has begun to urge Facebook and Whatsapp to remove same-sex-themed emojis that the social media companies have released in recent years. Via PinkNews: Pro-government newspaper Republika, reports that Line removed the emojis following complaints from users. The government?s information ministry spokesman Ismail Cawidu said: ?No social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[105,627,466,626,370,628,625],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-censorship","tag-emojis","tag-facebook","tag-glbt-censorship","tag-glbt-rights","tag-indonesia","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}