{"id":2156,"date":"2012-12-20T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2012-12-20T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:33:48","slug":"on-the-internet-people-only-rally-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2012\/12\/20\/on-the-internet-people-only-rally-once","title":{"rendered":"On the Internet, People Only Rally Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a successful corporation or government entity and I wanted the general public to accept a policy that was good for me but bad for them<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-2156-1' id='fnref-2156-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(2156)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, I might do something like the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Create a Terms and Conditions page that&#8217;s sure to create a bunch of link-bating headlines that would be shared all over the Internet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Publicly\u00a0apologize, tell people they&#8217;re right and they have simply misunderstood our intentions. Promise a revision.<\/li>\n<li>Wait. Then re-write the Terms and Conditions to say whatever I want. No one cares anymore, they got their victory.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Shhh, let&#8217;s just keep this between you and me. It&#8217;s a good thing nothing like this has ever happened before.<\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-2156'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-2156-1'> It&#8217;s a good thing corporations and government entities aren&#8217;t as clever as me, amiright? <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-2156-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a successful corporation or government entity and I wanted the general public to accept a policy that was good for me but bad for them1, I might do something like the following: Create a Terms and Conditions page that&#8217;s sure to create a bunch of link-bating headlines that would be shared all [&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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[642,75],"tags":[81,428,700,604],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-yM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156"}],"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=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}