{"id":33421,"date":"2022-01-24T03:09:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=33421"},"modified":"2022-01-24T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:09:16","slug":"tencents-wechat-blocks-australian-prime-minister-lawmaker-says-alleging-chinese-government-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=33421","title":{"rendered":"Tencent\u2019s WeChat blocks Australian prime minister, lawmaker says, alleging Chinese government interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe popular Chinese messaging application WeChat appears to have blocked access to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u2019s account, leading one senator to call for a parliament-wide boycott of the service.Senator James Paterson, chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, said on Monday the prime minister\u2019s team had been having trouble accessing the WeChat account for months. It was finally taken out of the government\u2019s control in early January despite formal\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3164478\/tencents-wechat-blocks-australian-prime-minister-lawmaker-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe popular Chinese messaging application WeChat appears to have blocked access to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison\u2019s account, leading one senator to call for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}