{"id":34921,"date":"2017-06-01T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nec-pushed-into-abandoning-social-media-censoring\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T11:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T11:07:52","slug":"nec-pushed-into-abandoning-social-media-censoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nec-pushed-into-abandoning-social-media-censoring\/","title":{"rendered":"NEC pushed into abandoning social media censoring project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has finally relented to the surging pressure and accepted to modify the recently announced order of censoring social media messages from presidential candidates and their agents before they are posted  on different platforms. } <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNEC\u2019s mission is to ensure free, fair and   safe elections. We will adjust social media regulations based on public feedback,\u201d NEC has informed the public via twitter account. <\/p>\n<p>The move to alter polls regulations follows various comments from concerned people expressing disappointment over social media censorship decision.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on NEC\u2019s decision via twitter account, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo expressed disappointment saying \u201cI strongly respect the National Electoral Commission but I disagree with licensing Rwandans on social media messages\u2026 majority of Rwandans are mature and law-abiding; the few abusers should face the law, instead of restricting citizens\u2019 views.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) also castigated  the decision taken by National Electoral Commission (NEC)to censor presidential candidates\u2019 social media messages and assured citizens of their rights saying NEC has no right to interfere with citizens\u2019 freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20505 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/prof_mbanda_uyobora_nec-b4101-70963-17c17.jpg\" alt=\"The National Electoral Commission chairperson, Prof Kalisa Mbanda\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has finally relented to the surging pressure and accepted to modify the recently announced order of censoring social media messages from presidential candidates and their agents before they are posted on different platforms. } \u201cNEC\u2019s mission is to ensure free, fair and safe elections. We will adjust social media regulations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34921"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34921"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}