{"id":99,"date":"2003-10-30T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-30T05:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/to_the_courts\/"},"modified":"2003-10-30T00:23:31","modified_gmt":"2003-10-30T05:23:31","slug":"to_the_courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/to_the_courts\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Courts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/oreilly\/index.html\">Mr. Looking Out for Us<\/a>, whose tactics this move emulates, here&#8217;s the ridiculous item of the day:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/nrof_luskin\/luskin-archive.asp\">Donald Luskin<\/a> had an attorney send a letter to Atrios <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_10_26_atrios_archive.html#106746499540074520\">threatening to take legal action<\/a> if the latter doesn&#8217;t remove some allegedly libelous posts and comments from <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/\">his website<\/a>.  Apparently, Luskin <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_10_26_atrios_archive.html#106746748983796720\">has yet to identify the offending comments<\/a>; he wants <i>all<\/i> comments removed.<br \/>\nSuffice it to say this kind of maneuver, even if unsuccessful, has a chilling effect on the blogosphere.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s already a fair level of <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_10_26_atrios_archive.html#106747418087919139\">commentary up on this<\/a>, and, I&#8217;m sure, plenty more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/to_the_courts\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to To the Courts!\"><p>In honor of Mr. Looking Out for Us, whose tactics this move emulates, here&#8217;s the ridiculous item of the day: Donald Luskin had an attorney send a letter to Atrios threatening to take legal action if the latter doesn&#8217;t remove some allegedly libelous posts and comments from his website. Apparently, Luskin has yet to identify [&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-99","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\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}