{"id":1944,"date":"2006-04-24T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/terror_in_the_digital_world\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:39:06","slug":"terror_in_the_digital_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/04\/terror_in_the_digital_world\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror In The Digital World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is reportedly preparing to deliberate a<a title=\"Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill\" href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Congress readies new digital copyright bill\/2100-1028_3-6064016.html?tag=nefd.top\">broad new digital copyright bill<\/a> which is stronger than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.  And, as is mandatory with any policy debate these days, the Bush administration breaks out the terrorism card:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such changes are necessary because new technology is &#8220;encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft,&#8221; Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, &#8220;quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Honestly, I wonder if there has been <em>any<\/em> bill in Congress the past four years which its supporters did <em>not<\/em> claim we needed it to fight the &#8220;War on Terror.&#8221;<br \/>\nMore discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/politics\/06\/04\/24\/0358210.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/04\/terror_in_the_digital_world\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Terror In The Digital World\"><p>Congress is reportedly preparing to deliberate abroad new digital copyright bill which is stronger than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. And, as is mandatory with any policy debate these days, the Bush administration breaks out the terrorism card: Such changes are necessary because new technology is &#8220;encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}