{"id":47959,"date":"2021-11-05T01:56:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/uncategorized\/tamil-politicians-say-instagrams-censorship-of-tamil-guardian-contributes-to-the-decades-of-repression-and-attacks-on-the-tamil-press-tamil.php"},"modified":"2021-11-05T01:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T05:56:46","slug":"tamil-politicians-say-instagrams-censorship-of-tamil-guardian-contributes-to-the-decades-of-repression-and-attacks-on-the-tamil-press-tamil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/censorship\/tamil-politicians-say-instagrams-censorship-of-tamil-guardian-contributes-to-the-decades-of-repression-and-attacks-on-the-tamil-press-tamil.php","title":{"rendered":"Tamil politicians say Instagram&#8217;s censorship of Tamil Guardian contributes to the &#8216;decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press&#8217; &#8211; Tamil&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>By banning @TamilGuardian, @Instagram and @Facebook are contributing to the decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press. I condemn this act of censorship and call for the account to be reinstated. pic.twitter.com\/nq96s7WbBR<\/p>\n<p> Shritharan Sivagnanam (@ImShritharan) October 29, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Tamil politicians from the North-East joined British and Canadian parliamentarians in denouncing Instagrams censoring of Tamil Guardians page.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil Guardians Instagram account, was brieflyreinstated on Friday after itwas disabled on Wednesday without any prior warning or explanation.<\/p>\n<p>However, just over 12 hours later, it was disabled again.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP S Shritharan tweeted that the censorship contributes to the decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil National Peoples Front (TNPF) leader Gajen Ponnambalam also expressed his dismay and called the move disgraceful and outrageous.<\/p>\n<p>.@Facebooks @instagrams actions against @TamilGuardian is not only disgraceful and unacceptable but must be condemned outright. The world pandered to the #SriLankan state to such an extent that it allowed a war that culminated in #tamil #genocide. (1) pic.twitter.com\/n10HDZfcq5<\/p>\n<p> Gajen Ponnambalam MP (@GGPonnambalam) October 29, 2021<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>These type of actions by Instagram will only embolden the Sri Lankan state in its culture of impunity and make the victims to continue to be voiceless,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite reaching out toFacebook and Instagram through various channels, theyhave not provided an explanation as to why the page has been disabled or why posts are repeatedly removed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>See more here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tamilguardian.com\/content\/tamil-politicians-say-instagram-s-censorship-tamil-guardian-contributes-decades-repression\" title=\"Tamil politicians say Instagram's censorship of Tamil Guardian contributes to the 'decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press' - Tamil...\">Tamil politicians say Instagram's censorship of Tamil Guardian contributes to the 'decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press' - Tamil...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By banning @TamilGuardian, @Instagram and @Facebook are contributing to the decades of repression and attacks on the Tamil press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}