{"id":527440,"date":"2026-07-01T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:44:12","slug":"ireland-to-use-eu-powers-to-back-digital-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527440\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland to Use EU Powers to Back Digital Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is to use its new powers as the helm of the European Council to back more online censorship, officials from inside the state have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Starting July 1, Ireland will hold the rotating presidency of the executive body for six months, allowing it to shape negotiations on key issues ranging from trade, immigration and defence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is to use its new powers as the helm of the European Council to back more online&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9710,5148,96282,61,60,1843,43,80],"class_list":["post-527440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-censorship","tag-european-union","tag-european-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}