{"id":8631,"date":"2013-01-06T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2013-01-06T20:18:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T20:18:50","slug":"8631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8631","title":{"rendered":"Not getting the internet in Ireland and Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Newspapers want to make it illegal to link to their articles, or charge people who do (<a title=\"Irish Newspapers want to control the internet\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Js4fF3D\" target=\"_blank\">link to article)<\/a> (via @rodti)<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely scandalous!<\/p>\n<p>And then news came in from @syzygy that the same information battle is being fought in Germany (<a title=\"German newspapers want to control the internet\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324784404578145153262883718.html\" target=\"_blank\">link to article<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, are these people not getting it?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea for the German and Irish newspapers; if you don&#8217;t want people to link to your articles, instead of trying to control the internet use of the population of the entire planet, why don&#8217;t you just stop putting your articles on the internet?<\/p>\n<p>How about that?<\/p>\n<p>Because it seems like the perfect solution to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Newspapers want to make it illegal to link to their articles, or charge people who do (link to article) (via @rodti) Absolutely scandalous! And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}