{"id":625,"date":"2013-10-22T17:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2013-10-22T17:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T17:48:32","slug":"scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ATT, Verizon, Comcast, XFinity (really, Qwest?)\u00a0had the tools to \u201csniff\u201d the content of emails, blog posts, news articles, as they were posted to the internet, it would be their <i>legal obligation <\/i>to minimize access to criticism. It would be a\u00a0<em>violation of their fiduciary responsibility<\/em>\u00a0not to do whatever is legal to preserve their reputations and protect their business plans.\u00a0Whatever is legal.<\/p>\n<p>But as far as the Internet goes, the law sits about ten generations behind the technology, and the social consequences, of this whole new paradigm of human interaction. Of course these companies, which collude with the National Security Agency, know the content of our communication.\u00a0The Oligopolists of Communication are about two generations ahead, technologically and legally. They write the laws and then get lickspittle congressmen, like Oregon\u2019s Greg Walden, to introduce them.<\/p>\n<p>Using words like\u00a0 \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201cprogress\u201d and \u201cmarket\u201d and \u201cinnovation,\u201d and bribes in the form of campaign contribtuions, they keep at bay the only force, the definition of \u201cwhat\u2019s legal,\u201d that could reign in their slurping and sucking and hoarding of the life blood of our librerty: information.<\/p>\n<p>You have no privacy. You have no rights. You have no power. They have won, and if you oppose them, you will be rendered either deaf, or mute. We have no mouth, and we must scream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ATT, Verizon, Comcast, XFinity (really, Qwest?)\u00a0had the tools to \u201csniff\u201d the content of emails, blog posts, news articles, as they were posted to the internet, it would be their <i>legal obligation <\/i>to minimize access to criticism. It would be a\u00a0<em>violation of their fiduciary responsibility<\/em>\u00a0not to do whatever is legal to preserve their reputations and protect their business plans.\u00a0Whatever is legal.<\/p>\n<p>But as far as the Internet goes, the law sits about ten generations behind the technology, and the social consequences, of this whole new paradigm of human interaction. Of course these companies, which collude with the National Security Agency,  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=625\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8,1],"tags":[99,179,126,143,167,160,178,100,166,146],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window","category-outer-limits","category-uncategorized","tag-att","tag-campaign-contributions","tag-comcast","tag-freedom","tag-internet","tag-liberty","tag-oligopoly","tag-verizon","tag-walden","tag-xfinity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3mcOb-scream","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}