{"id":1017,"date":"2012-01-18T06:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2012-01-18T06:25:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:25:29","slug":"internet-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Internet Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will no doubt come across websites today that are blacked out. Many members of the internet are on strike to bring awareness to two impending bills before the US Congress and the Senate.\u00a0 They are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261\" target=\"_blank\">SOPA<\/a> (stop online Piracy act) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968\" target=\"_blank\">PIPA<\/a> (Protect IP act).\u00a0 Though most support the enforcement of copyright laws\u00a0 as these names imply these bills if they become law are not quite what the name implies, they are much more complex.\u00a0 Wikipedia has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative\/Learn_more\" target=\"_blank\">good explanation<\/a> of why they do not support the bills.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544\/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS news<\/a> has an article on why they support the bills.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you will no doubt come across websites today that are blacked out. Many members of the internet are on strike to bring awareness to two impending bills before the US Congress and the Senate.\u00a0 They are SOPA (stop online Piracy act) and PIPA (Protect IP act).\u00a0 Though most support the enforcement of copyright laws\u00a0 as these names imply these bills if they become law are not quite what the name implies, they are much more complex.\u00a0 Wikipedia has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1017\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,131],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}