{"id":409,"date":"2003-09-24T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2003\/09\/24\/silencing-dissent-copyright-protecti"},"modified":"2003-09-24T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T14:42:06","slug":"silencing-dissent-copyright-protection-as-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2003\/09\/24\/silencing-dissent-copyright-protection-as-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Silencing Dissent &#8211; Copyright Protection as Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a42'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ben\/2003\/09\/23#a41\">my previous post<\/a>, I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2003\/09\/23\/bev_harris\/index.html\">Salon&#8217;s article on the many faults of a widely-used touch-screen voting system<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboxvoting.org\/\">some people got their panties in a twist<\/a> about the world knowing their electronic voting boxes are pathetic. Spread the word. Copyright protection is now being used to <b>hide the way our democracy runs<\/b>. Not exactly the &#8220;advancement of the arts and sciences&#8221; the Constitution had in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post, I mentioned Salon&#8217;s article on the many faults of a widely-used touch-screen voting system. It seems that some people got their panties in a twist about the world knowing their electronic voting boxes are pathetic. Spread the word. Copyright protection is now being used to hide the way our democracy runs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}