{"id":1520,"date":"2012-01-19T01:11:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2012-01-19T01:11:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T08:11:54","slug":"what-is-wrong-with-sopa-and-pipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/01\/19\/what-is-wrong-with-sopa-and-pipa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wrong with SOPA and PIPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2012\/01\/clay-shirky-defend-our-freedom-to-share-or-why-sopa-is-a-bad-idea.html\">\u00a0Clay Shirky says it pretty well<\/a>. (And in Canada, Michael Geist and Howard Knopf give good coverage of the legal issues for us). These proposed laws reverse the burden of proof with regard to alleged copyright violation. This both takes away the right of due process and has the effect of adding prohibitive costs onto the shoulders of the providers of self-publishing services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Clay Shirky says it pretty well. (And in Canada, Michael Geist and Howard Knopf give good coverage of the legal issues for us). These proposed laws reverse the burden of proof with regard to alleged copyright violation. This both takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2012\/01\/19\/what-is-wrong-with-sopa-and-pipa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}