{"id":1762,"date":"2009-11-09T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T19:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:43:24","slug":"qotd-society-must-be-protected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/qotd-society-must-be-protected\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Society must be protected"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I think this does not go nearly far enough. Clearly the company behind Red Bull should be closely regulated as it is only a matter of time before someone drinks one and jumps off a building and falls to their death because contrary to their claims, Red Bull does not in fact &#8216;give you wings&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In short, as people who are not &#8216;experts&#8217; are moronic halfwits incapable of telling reality from advertising hype, we must simply turn over all aspects of our life to government approved <del datetime=\"2009-11-09T18:01:48+00:00\">self-important technocratic prigs<\/del> qualified &#8216;experts&#8217; who can determine what we are permitted to see.<\/p>\n<p>We must &#8216;do it for the children&#8217; of course.<\/p>\n<p>Perry de Havilland, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/all_your_images.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;All your images belong to us&#8221;, <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2009-11-09<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this does not go nearly far enough. Clearly the company behind Red Bull should be closely regulated as it is only a matter of time before someone drinks one and jumps off a building and falls to their death because contrary to their claims, Red Bull does not in fact &#8216;give you wings&#8217;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[4,8,28,41],"tags":[52,97,156],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-media","category-quotations","tag-absurd","tag-advertising","tag-fail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","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=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65588,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/65588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}