{"id":11226,"date":"2021-01-21T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3118627\/us-capitol-riot-how-internet-exposes-weak-links-american-democracy"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:45:07","slug":"us-capitol-riot-how-the-internet-exposes-the-weak-links-in-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/us-capitol-riot-how-the-internet-exposes-the-weak-links-in-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"US Capitol riot: how the internet exposes the weak links in American democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"Plenty has been said, and rightfully so, about the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Politicians are grappling with issues of legal and moral accountability. But the horrific events also touch on a critical contradiction of modern societies: the internet\u2019s role as an instrument of democracy\u2019s destruction.It was not supposed to be this way. The internet\u2019s open architecture has long been extolled by cyber-libertarian futurists as a powerful new democratising force. Information\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3118627\/us-capitol-riot-how-internet-exposes-weak-links-american-democracy\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty has been said, and rightfully so, about the violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6. Politicians are grappling with issues of legal and moral accountability. But the horrific events also touch on a critical contradiction of modern so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}