{"id":6155,"date":"2022-06-30T08:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:36:07","slug":"amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant imposes restrictions on goods such as books and rainbow-coloured flags after threats of penalties<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The company decided to restrict the searches after being threatened with penalties by the UAE government, according to the New York Times which first reported the story.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/30\/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0d12008f6e287367030776774c25005203df2643\/0_24_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=138a4bc33558dea0b51a93daedf75fda\" title=\"Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results\" \/>Tech giant imposes restrictions on goods such as books and rainbow-coloured flags after threats of penalties<br \/>\nAmazon has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country.<br \/>\nThe company decided to restrict the searches after being threatened with penalties by the UAE government, according to the New York Times which first reported the story. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giant imposes restrictions on goods such as books and rainbow-coloured flags after threats of penalties Amazon has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country. The company decided to restrict the searches after being threatened &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/30\/amazon-bows-to-uae-pressure-to-restrict-lgbt-search-results\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon bows to UAE pressure to restrict LGBT search results<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}