{"id":62047,"date":"2023-06-09T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=62047"},"modified":"2023-06-08T09:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:09:38","slug":"qotd-the-fundamental-paradox-of-internet-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/09\/qotd-the-fundamental-paradox-of-internet-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Fundamental Paradox of Internet Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you were smart enough to understand what I&#8217;m saying, you&#8217;d be a liberal, too<\/li>\n<li>You aren&#8217;t smart enough to understand it, because you&#8217;re not a liberal<\/li>\n<li>And yet here I am, arguing with you anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So who, exactly, is the dumb one?<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/alienation-ii\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Alienation II&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2020-10-30.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were smart enough to understand what I&#8217;m saying, you&#8217;d be a liberal, too You aren&#8217;t smart enough to understand it, because you&#8217;re not a liberal And yet here I am, arguing with you anyway. So who, exactly, is the dumb one? Severian, &#8220;Alienation II&#8221;, Rotten Chestnuts, 2020-10-30.<\/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":[57,28,53,41,13],"tags":[58,1020,1462,593],"class_list":["post-62047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-internet","tag-progressives","tag-severian","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-g8L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047","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=62047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82678,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62047\/revisions\/82678"}],"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=62047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}