{"id":1116,"date":"2012-01-18T07:30:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2012-01-18T07:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:30:38","slug":"pipasopa-and-internet-strike-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"PIPA\/SOPA and internet strike today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GoogleagainstSopa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GoogleagainstSopa.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GoogleagainstSopa\" width=\"181\" height=\"114\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1117\" \/><\/a>Many people are going &#8220;offline&#8221; today to protest PIPA and SOPA, I imagine most of them have never read the legislation, or truly have an idea of what it means.  If you are interested &#8211; there is a run down of it here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/wikipedia-sopa-pipa-article-1.1007847?localLinksEnabled=false\">NY Daily News<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.org\/about\/SOPA\">Craigslist<\/a> take (strong language) &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>The main issue? Punishing American tech companies\/websites for linking, posting, promoting, etc. non-American, possibly law defying companies who might promote piracy.  If this sounds familiar, it should everytime a new medium comes out (cassette tape, vhs tape, DVD recorder, etc.) the &#8220;media&#8221; comes forward with a new &#8220;solution&#8221;. In the past, it has been a tax on blank medium.  <\/p>\n<p>Tim O&#8217;Reilly, respected author and publisher has an interesting interview of this law and why he believes it is not even needed at <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/01\/13\/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa\/\">GigaOM.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The attached graphic is what googles search engine looks like. Which is better than craigslist or wikipedia which are mostly down today in protest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are going &#8220;offline&#8221; today to protest PIPA and SOPA, I imagine most of them have never read the legislation, or truly have an idea of what it means. If you are interested &#8211; there is a run down of it here NY Daily News and Craigslist take (strong language) &#8211; The main issue? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canteraconsultants.com\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}