{"id":1176,"date":"2008-08-27T19:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:27:46","slug":"us-support-of-chinese-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/27\/us-support-of-chinese-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"US Support of Chinese Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I should point out now that this almost certainly isn&#8217;t what you were expecting.\u00c2\u00a0 See, this is a highlighting of the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/rockdaily\/index.php\/2008\/06\/24\/guns-n-roses-chinese-democracy-leaker-gets-fbi-visit\/\">your taxpayer dollars are being spent to protect <em>Chinese Democracy<\/em><\/a>, and <em>not<\/em> democracy in China:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/rockdaily\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/the-real-chinese-democracy-may-have-leaked\/\" target=\"blank\">posted nine newly leaked <em>Chinese Democracy<\/em> tracks<\/a>, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstones.com\/artists\/gunsnroses\" target=\"_blank\">Guns n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Roses<\/a> long-awaited album. [ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI agents who paid a visit to his day job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never really seen a compelling case for putting public dollars into protecting the private rights of copyright owners.\u00c2\u00a0 That isn&#8217;t to say that there couldn&#8217;t be a case &#8211; it&#8217;s just that I can think of a 100 other things that are more important to society than that, and I think we should have seen and debated that case before we committed the resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I should point out now that this almost certainly isn&#8217;t what you were expecting.\u00c2\u00a0 See, this is a highlighting of the fact that your taxpayer dollars are being spent to protect Chinese Democracy, and not democracy in China: Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}