{"id":32235,"date":"2012-11-05T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32235"},"modified":"2012-11-05T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T19:39:12","slug":"pc-world-canadian-bill-10-years-to-those-who-hide-their-faces-during-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/05\/pc-world-canadian-bill-10-years-to-those-who-hide-their-faces-during-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"PC World: Canadian Bill &#8212; 10 years to those who hide their faces during protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Canada may get into trouble for wearing the Guy Fawkes masks they\u2019re known for if a protest escalates to a riot. That\u2019s because Canada&#8217;s House of Commons last week approved a bill that bans people from hiding their faces during riots.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was championed by a lawmaker who said it was a response to last year&#8217;s Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver, during which often-masked vandals smashed and lit fire to the city after their professional hockey team lost to the Boston Bruins, reports the security firm Sophos .<\/p>\n<p>While the bill doesn\u2019t apply to peaceful demonstrations, anyone convicted of covering his or her face during a riot or unlawful assembly could get up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2013508\/anonymous-protests-planned-over-government-surveillance.html\" title=\"Protesters in Canada\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters in Canada may get into trouble for wearing the Guy Fawkes masks they\u2019re known for if a protest escalates to a riot. That\u2019s because Canada&#8217;s House of Commons last week approved a bill that bans people from hiding their faces during riots. The bill was championed by a lawmaker who said it was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32236,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions\/32236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}