{"id":18,"date":"2011-12-15T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-12-15T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:45:17","slug":"watching-the-sopa-committee-is-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Watching the SOPA Committee is Frustrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching the Judiciary Committee talking about SOPA&#8230;I should just shoot myself.\u00a0 It&#8217;s obvious that our representatives do not understand technology but are still making laws about it.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are a few people there that know more than others.\u00a0 Some can even use the term DNS correctly.\u00a0\u00a0The people who don&#8217;t have a clue show like a bright light in the middle of a cloudy night.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<\/p>\n<p>Also, I don&#8217;t believe anyone changes their minds based on the dialog of the meeting.\u00a0 It seems like everyone is trying to ask and answer questions to further justify their position they had before going into the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching the Judiciary Committee talking about SOPA&#8230;I should just shoot myself.\u00a0 It&#8217;s obvious that our representatives do not understand technology but are still making laws about it. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, there are a few people there that know more than others.\u00a0 Some can even use the term DNS correctly.\u00a0\u00a0The people who don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.brianscloud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}