{"id":25694,"date":"2012-01-18T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25694"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:28:33","slug":"open-letter-to-senators-franken-and-klobuchar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25694","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Senators Franken And Klobuchar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Senators Franken And Klobuchar<\/p>\n<p>From: Mitch Berg, Potential Target<\/p>\n<p>Re: SOPA Pillaging<\/p>\n<p>Senators,<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from Wikipedia to Keilth Ellison is blacking out their sites today to protest the idiotic &#8220;Stop Online Piracy Act&#8221;, which would &#8220;stop piracy&#8221; by giving the Executive Branch the ability to wantonly shut down websites for <em>linking to<\/em>\u00a0sites that had so much as one pirated file among thousands of others, even inadvertently.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have time to muck with this site&#8217;s code to that extent, but I&#8217;ll give an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static.ragamuffinsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/black-square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We know &#8211; your Hollywood backers want this bill. \u00a0They want their man Obama to be able to crush anything that saps their revenue. \u00a0And they paid good money to get you both elected.<\/p>\n<p>So go work for them. \u00a0In Hollywood, not DC.<\/p>\n<p>Ditch the bill and take your lumps.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, even if you <em>do <\/em>withdraw SOPA, I will dog you about it until you leave office, and beyond; you deserve it. \u00a0But them&#8217;s the breaks)<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Senators Franken And Klobuchar From: Mitch Berg, Potential Target Re: SOPA Pillaging Senators, Everyone from Wikipedia to Keilth Ellison is blacking out their sites today to protest the idiotic &#8220;Stop Online Piracy Act&#8221;, which would &#8220;stop piracy&#8221; by giving the Executive Branch the ability to wantonly shut down websites for linking to\u00a0sites that had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[208,249],"class_list":["post-25694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-a-klo","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33738,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25694\/revisions\/33738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}