{"id":18092,"date":"2019-10-24T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=18092"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:04:01","slug":"in-the-library-arthur-papyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2019\/10\/24\/18092\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Library: Arthur Papyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Papyan, the co-founder of the <\/span>Civicert<\/span><\/a> Initiative, considers that the attempt at Internet restriction and surveillance is dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, it became known that the Public Services Regulatory Commission has such a project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think this document will create an unnecessary burden and give the state a great opportunity to commit abuse. It will give levers, the role of which is unclear at this time,” said Arthur Papyan.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to him, it is a threat for providers, the international image of Armenia and users whose personal data, correspondence, and addresses can be accessed by law enforcement agencies as a persecution tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, by law, a journalist may keep his source confidential, while under this draft they will be required to disclose the source.<\/span><\/p>\n

\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n

Artur Papyan is concerned about the fact that this project was <\/span>accidentally leaked<\/span><\/a>, and there have been no serious discussions. The Commission <\/span>responded<\/span><\/a> only after a public outcry.<\/span><\/p>\n

He does not rule out that restrictions on Internet freedom may be linked to political developments, especially since we are entering a new election phase two years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all, our country changed a year and a half ago because of internet freedom. And what are you afraid of now? That it will change again? We, as citizens, are not afraid of that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gegham Vardanyan<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arthur Papyan, the co-founder of the Civicert Initiative, considers that the attempt at Internet restriction and surveillance is dangerous. Recently, it became known that the Public Services Regulatory Commission has such a project. \u201cI think this document will create an unnecessary burden and give the state a great opportunity to commit abuse. It will give Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-library","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18093,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18092\/revisions\/18093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}