{"id":203505,"date":"2021-06-14T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=280980"},"modified":"2021-06-14T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:33:09","slug":"tamed-estate-arrest-of-friendlyjordies-producer-attests-to-dangerous-state-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/14\/tamed-estate-arrest-of-friendlyjordies-producer-attests-to-dangerous-state-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamed Estate: arrest of FriendlyJordies producer attests to dangerous state of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tamed.main_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tamed Estate\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tamed.main_.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tamed.main_-480x300.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The arrest of a producer of YouTube journalist and comedian FriendlyJordies has disturbing implications for free speech and civil liberties. That a counter-terrorism unit would be sent in to arrest a government critic has eerie parallels to repressive regimes around the world, writes Michael Tanner.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/tamed-estate-arrest-of-friendlyjordies-producer-attests-to-dangerous-state-of-democracy\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrest of a producer of YouTube journalist and comedian FriendlyJordies has disturbing implications for free speech and civil liberties. That a counter-terrorism unit would be sent in to arrest a government critic has eerie parallels to repressive &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505"}],"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\/961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203506,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203505\/revisions\/203506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}