{"id":150,"date":"2012-01-18T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2012-01-18T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T10:02:15","slug":"wikipedia-blackout-day-2012-january-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Blackout Day 2012 January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wikipedia-blackout.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-151\" title=\"Wikipedia-blackout\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wikipedia-blackout.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wikipedia-blackout.png 721w, https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wikipedia-blackout-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a>Wikikpedia has blacked itself out in protest of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act\">SOPA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PROTECT_IP_Act\">PIPA<\/a> &#8211; the anti-piracy legislation by the U.S. Government. I can&#8217;t think of another country that would put such restrictions in place. I mean, tampering with the world wide DNS system if someone makes the statement that a site has pirated material or pointers to where you could get pirated material. Hmmm&#8230;. what would the next thing to be\u00a0 blocked? Maybe the U.S. could get a strong, fundamentalist Christian government and they could block access to any sites on Islam because they may have some link to religion-based terrorism? No where else in the world would do something like that. I mean, censor information, really? Oh, maybe I&#8217;m wrong here. Don&#8217;t we already have an example of this &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_firewall_of_china\">The Great Firewall of China<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikikpedia has blacked itself out in protest of SOPA and PIPA &#8211; the anti-piracy legislation by the U.S. Government. I can&#8217;t think of another country that would put such restrictions in place. I mean, tampering with the world wide DNS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}