{"id":6080,"date":"2012-01-18T16:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=6080"},"modified":"2012-01-18T16:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:50:57","slug":"sopa-and-pipa-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/sopa-and-pipa-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPA and PIPA blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided not to blackout any of my blogs and sites today partly from laziness and partly in fear that I would totally screw something up, but I do want to register my support for those who are protesting by taking down their sites. I have contacted my congressional representatives and I hope any of you in the US will consider doing the same.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is this all about? This is one of the most straightforward explanations:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31100268?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/31100268\">PROTECT IP \/ SOPA Breaks The Internet<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fightforthefuture\">Fight for the Future<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you go to any of the major sites who are participating in the blackout and protest, you&#8217;ll find more links about the potential danger of bills like these. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided not to blackout any of my blogs and sites today partly from laziness and partly in fear that I would totally screw something up, but I do want to register my support for those who are protesting by taking down their sites. I have contacted my congressional representatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/sopa-and-pipa-blackouts\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic","category-site-updates-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}