{"id":2536,"date":"2008-03-19T06:16:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T06:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2008-03-19T06:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T06:16:17","slug":"2008-3-19-more-on-arab-satellite-charter-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"More on Arab Satellite Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/\">Arab Media &amp; Society<\/a> has translated the Arab League Satellite Broadcaster Charter revealed <a href=\"\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/the-arab-governments-and-satellite-television\/\">a few weeks ago<\/a> and offers some analysis, with various experts weighing in on whether the charter may be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=649\">good thing<\/a> in some respects (regulating hate speech, religious extremism, etc.) but judging from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=650\">contradictions<\/a> and the track record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=651\">who&#8217;ll be doing the implementation<\/a>, we should not get too excited. Like a lot of rules in the Arab world, they are harsh on paper but the implementation can be very flexible &#8212; so it&#8217;s probably yet another tool to be deployed when necessary but not scrupulously enforced, especially as some of its measures seem illegal.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I do wish it would be used to regulate religious speech, though, starting with some of the stuff you hear on Islamic channels like Iqraa and the crazy Christian channels. But somehow I doubt they&#8217;ll touch that one.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/\">Arab Media &amp; Society<\/a> has translated the Arab League Satellite Broadcaster Charter revealed <a href=\"\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/the-arab-governments-and-satellite-television\/\">a few weeks ago<\/a> and offers some analysis, with various experts weighing in on whether the charter may be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=649\">good thing<\/a> in some respects (regulating hate speech, religious extremism, etc.) but judging from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=650\">contradictions<\/a> and the track record of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabmediasociety.com\/?article=651\">who&#8217;ll be doing the implementation<\/a>, we should not get too excited. Like a lot of rules in the Arab world, they are harsh on paper but the implementation can be very flexible &#8212; so it&#8217;s probably yet another tool to be deployed when necessary but not scrupulously enforced, especially as some of its measures seem illegal.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish it would be used to regulate religious speech, though, starting with some of the stuff you hear on Islamic channels like Iqraa and the crazy Christian channels. But somehow I doubt they&#8217;ll touch that one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}