{"id":4427,"date":"2007-10-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/10\/23\/how-to-get-morons-off-the-net.html"},"modified":"2012-01-02T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T16:39:40","slug":"how-to-get-morons-off-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/how-to-get-morons-off-the-net.html","title":{"rendered":"How to get morons off the Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>That  certainly is a rather moronic statement. There is a very good reason  for anonymous posting or alias posting. First of all, not all  governments allow free speech. We cannot even be sure that free speech  will be allowed in this country much longer. Suppose the government  passes hate speech laws and then searches for any comment that falls  within their new demented hate laws? Suppose citizen action groups look  for people to turn into the government or sue them? Suppose law suits  are enacted against people who hurt other people&#8217;s feeling with their  comments? Suppose employers will not hire you until they do a search on  the Internet on your name to see everything you ever said about  anything? Etc. The way to stop morons on the Net is for the  administrator of the website or Blog to delete comments that are not  appropriate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WorldNetDaily: How to get morons off the Net: &#8220;There is not one good reason for any website, left or right, or non-political, to allow people to avoid identifying themselves. Anyone interested in serious political discourse, or in merely lowering the hate levels in our country, should welcome the banning of anonymous postings. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That certainly is a rather moronic statement. There is a very good reason for anonymous posting or alias posting. First of all, not all governments allow free speech. We cannot even be sure that free speech will be allowed in this country much longer. Suppose the government passes hate speech laws and then searches for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,326],"tags":[167,138],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-issues-and-patriot-topics","category-total-nonsense","tag-food-for-thought","tag-freedoms-and-liberties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-19p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}