{"id":1243,"date":"2012-01-25T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T16:16:22","slug":"lying-the-truth-about-opposing-sopapipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2012\/01\/25\/lying-the-truth-about-opposing-sopapipa","title":{"rendered":"Lying: The Truth About Opposing SOPA\/PIPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me jaded, but whenever I hear a member of Congress or the Senate openly\u00a0denounce SOPA and\/or PIPA, I roll my eyes. They just want attention. Attention from this\u00a0new found\u00a0&#8220;Internet community,&#8221; a group that is becoming more and more powerful and influential. They want a news article, featuring them in a positive light, to go viral. They want to be known as anti-SOPA\/PIPA, while continuing to do whatever they please.<\/p>\n<p>Do I think any of these &#8220;representatives&#8221; would continue to support the Internet community if the price was right from lobbyists? No. I much more convinced they&#8217;ll ride the wave of support, get re-elected, take the money, and run.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost all faith in my representatives actually representing me. Kill Hollywood? Let&#8217;s kill our current political system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians are only opposing SOPA\/PIPA to gain support of the Internet community, go viral, and get re-elected. There is no doubt that if the (lobbyist) price was right, they&#8217;d take the money and run.<\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}