{"id":7698,"date":"2021-01-13T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149759"},"modified":"2021-01-13T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:30:33","slug":"kicking-trump-off-social-media-wont-save-democracy-say-antitrust-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/kicking-trump-off-social-media-wont-save-democracy-say-antitrust-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Trump Off Social Media Won&#8217;t Save Democracy, Say Antitrust Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Brett Wilkins, staff writer<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>&#8220;If these firms are so powerful that they can be the primary gatekeepers between a president and the public, then they have outgrown democratic control.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/headline\/thumbs\/break-up-big-tech_0_0.jpg?itok=oKDQHJV5\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Legislators and advocates are increasingly urging the breaking up of tech titans like Facebook and Google. (Image: Peter Macdiarmid\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/kicking-trump-off-social-media-wont-save-democracy-say-antitrust-experts\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Wilkins, staff writer \u201cIf these firms are so powerful that they can be the primary gatekeepers between a president and the public, then they have outgrown democratic\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}