{"id":12635,"date":"2011-12-17T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2011-12-17T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:39:24","slug":"charles-stross-divines-the-real-reason-for-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/17\/charles-stross-divines-the-real-reason-for-sopa\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Stross divines the real reason for SOPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2011\/12\/seasonal-flame-bait.html\" target=\"_blank\">whole thing<\/a>, but the last few points help to explain why the push for SOPA is coming right now:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>7. Modern communications technologies (including the internet) provide people with a limitless channel for self-expression (not to mention distraction &mdash; endless circuses without the bread). They also provide the police state with a limitless flow of intelligence about the people. Note also that it&#8217;s possible to not merely listen in on mobile phone calls, but to use a mobile phone as a GPS-aware bugging device, and (with a bit more smarts) to have it report on physical proximity (within bluetooth range &mdash; about 20 feet) to other suspects. The flip side of social networking is that the police state knows all your acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p>8. So I infer that the purpose of SOPA is to close the loop, and allow the oligarchy to shut down hostile coordinating sites as and when the anticipated revolution kicks off. Piracy\/copyright is a distraction &mdash; those folks pointing to similarities to Iranian\/Chinese net censorship regimes are correct, but they&#8217;re not focussing on the real implication (which is a ham-fisted desire to be able to shut down large chunks of the internet at will, if and when it becomes expedient to do so).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the whole thing, but the last few points help to explain why the push for SOPA is coming right now: 7. Modern communications technologies (including the internet) provide people with a limitless channel for self-expression (not to mention distraction &mdash; endless circuses without the bread). They also provide the police state with a limitless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[84,10,53,13],"tags":[459,135,186,58,468,720],"class_list":["post-12635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-censorship","tag-copyright","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-internet","tag-piracy","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3hN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12636,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12635\/revisions\/12636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}