{"id":27196,"date":"2020-08-13T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27196"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:19:45","slug":"over-500-belarusian-it-founders-and-developers-sign-open-letter-against-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/over-500-belarusian-it-founders-and-developers-sign-open-letter-against-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 500 Belarusian IT founders and developers sign open letter against violence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Leaders, founders and developers of Belarusian IT companies signed <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/dev.by\/news\/otkrytoe-pismo-it-kompanii\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">open letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> against violence in the country.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u201cWe are not policy experts, but we are experts in the tech business. The country is creating conditions in which tech business cannot function. Startups are not born in an atmosphere of fear and violence. Startups are born in an atmosphere of freedom and openness,\u201d the letter says.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Representatives of the IT industry urged an end to violence against peaceful residents, the release of political prisoners, new elections and free access to information for citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">More than 500 people signed the letter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The internet was virtually unavailable on the day of the Belarusian presidential election and for several days afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Concerning what happened to it, ForkLog <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cryptocurrency-price-analysis-awaiting-a-new-bullish-impulse\">explained<\/a> experts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders, founders and developers of Belarusian IT companies signed an open letter against violence in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-27196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-belarus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27197,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions\/27197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}