{"id":1334,"date":"2011-11-30T21:23:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/30\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:59","slug":"south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Parliament Passes Secrecy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/747021782\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\" 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\/747021782\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/2KHgtVGM9nuvfx1af9udqDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>The legislation, called the Protection of State Information Bill, seeks to update state-secrets legislation the ruling African National Congress party said was last changed 30 years ago, during the apartheid era.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/corruption-currents\/2011\/11\/22\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via blogs.wsj.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThe legislation, called the Protection of State Information Bill, seeks to update state-secrets legislation the ruling African National Congress party said was last changed 30 years ago, during the apartheid era.Via blogs.wsj.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/05\/24\/new-york-wants-to-ban-anonymous-speech-online-rt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1334,"position":0},"title":"New York wants to ban anonymous speech online \u2014 RT","author":"aslam","date":"May 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Lawmakers in New York State are proposing a new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it\u2019s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. 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