{"id":28249,"date":"2014-02-22T01:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28249"},"modified":"2014-02-22T01:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T06:33:04","slug":"telecommunication-regulatory-commission-director-general-says-he-could-shut-down-facebook-in-sri-lanka-if-govt-decides-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=28249","title":{"rendered":"Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Director-General says he could Shut down Facebook in Sri Lanka if Govt Decides so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <\/p>\n<p>Ajith Alahakoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Anusha Pelpita yesterday said that he could shut down Facebook in Sri Lanka if the government took a policy decision to that effect.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pelpita told The Island that abuse of social network had resulted in various social problems and the elders including parents and teachers should inform the children of the ill-effects of Facebook.Various youngsters and schoolchildren abused the Facebook and got into trouble, he said.<\/p>\n<p>If awareness campaigns to tackle ill effects of Facebook did not reach fruition, then there would be no alternative but to suspend that facility, Pelpita said. However, he said proxy servers would hinder the complete blocking of the social network.<\/p>\n<p>If the National Child Protection Authority or the Ministry of Child Development and Women\u2019s Affairs took any policy decision to block this social network and inform the TRC of that decision, action could be taken to obstruct its use, he added.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nCourtesy;The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton28249\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D28249&amp;text=Telecommunication%20Regulatory%20Commission%20Director-General%20says%20he%20could%20Shut%20down%20Facebook%20in%20Sri%20Lanka%20if%20Govt...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ajith Alahakoon Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Anusha Pelpita yesterday said that he could shut down Facebook in Sri Lanka if the government took a policy decision to that effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28251,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28249\/revisions\/28251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}