{"id":10656,"date":"2012-01-20T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2012-01-20T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T10:14:12","slug":"the-internet-strike-may-have-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/01\/the-internet-strike-may-have-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet strike may have worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Wikipedia blackout and other protests on the internet to the SOPA bill may have done some good.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts-law\/after-wikipedia-blackout-lawmakers-struggle-to-keep-anti-piracy-bills-on-track\/2012\/01\/19\/gIQAqc9ZBQ_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Congressmen<\/a>, including former sponsors in the House and the Senate, are now running away from the bill.\u00a0 President Obama has also come out against the bill as it stands, provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/news\/hollywood-obama-sopa-support-229\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hollywood<\/a> moguls to threaten to withdraw their financial support of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia blackout and other protests on the internet to the SOPA bill may have done some good.\u00a0\u00a0 Congressmen, including former sponsors in the House and the Senate, are now running away from the bill.\u00a0 President Obama has also come out against the bill as it stands, provoking Hollywood moguls to threaten to withdraw their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44],"tags":[394,1088,1101],"class_list":["post-10656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-information-technology","tag-internet"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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