{"id":1191,"date":"2012-01-03T02:09:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T02:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/03\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:21","slug":"it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/03\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in\/","title":{"rendered":"It is now illegal to access any foreign website in the Republic of Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/921773691\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in-the-republic-of-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/921773691\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in-the-republic-of-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/1NjRhXMV-OrPEJIkFV50pDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> According to the US Library of Congress, the Republic of Belarus has just recently published a law making it illegal for Belarusian citizens and residents access and\/or use foreign foreign websites (particularly for commercial purposes). Violations of the law are recognized as a misdemeanor and result in a charge of up to $125.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/01\/02\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in-the-republic-of-belarus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via thenextweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties According to the US Library of Congress, the Republic of Belarus has just recently published a law making it illegal for Belarusian citizens and residents access and\/or use foreign foreign websites (particularly for commercial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/03\/it-is-now-illegal-to-access-any-foreign-website-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1563,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/07\/09\/ukrainian-city-of-odessa-is-a-sex-trafficking\/","url_meta":{"origin":1191,"position":0},"title":"Ukrainian city of Odessa is a sex trafficking trade hub for northern hemisphere","author":"aslam","date":"July 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesAccording to the report, the numbers of Ukrainians forced into prostitution \u201ccontinued to increase\u201d in 2010; women were routinely trafficked to and from the country. 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