{"id":7261,"date":"2011-12-18T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2011-12-18T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T06:10:09","slug":"its-still-we-the-people-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/12\/18\/its-still-we-the-people-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still &#8220;We the people&#8221;, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the draft of this post for almost a week now, and yes I took the title from &#8220;Peace Sells&#8221; lyric. After numbers of revisions, I scrapped the entire content and started a new one. Well, this is the new content.<\/p>\n<p>Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the talk of the Internet these days. I&#8217;d go this far to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their current form, SOPA and PIPA easily undermine if not violate the First and Fourth Amendments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>There is a newly created <a href=\"https:\/\/wwws.whitehouse.gov\/petitions\/!\/petition\/veto-sopa-bill-and-any-other-future-bills-threaten-diminish-free-flow-information\/g3W1BscR\" target=\"_blank\">petition to veto the SOPA bill<\/a> on WhiteHouse.gov &#8220;We the People&#8221; site. I urge you, voting Americans, to sign this petition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/we-the-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"we-the-people\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/we-the-people.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwws.whitehouse.gov\/petitions\/!\/petition\/veto-sopa-bill-and-any-other-future-bills-threaten-diminish-free-flow-information\/g3W1BscR\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"veto-SOPA-petition\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/veto-SOPA-petition.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"684\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=3367530\" target=\"_blank\">Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stopcensorship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/stopcensorship.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the draft of this post for almost a week now, and yes I took the title from &#8220;Peace Sells&#8221; lyric. After numbers of revisions, I scrapped the entire content and started a new one. Well, this is the new content. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and The Protect IP Act (PIPA) are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/12\/18\/its-still-we-the-people-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s still &#8220;We the people&#8221;, right?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[2335,2759,936],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-pipa","tag-sopa","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1T7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}