{"id":8355,"date":"2011-04-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8355"},"modified":"2011-04-06T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T08:00:00","slug":"apply-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8355","title":{"rendered":"Apply Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/why-is-it-rocket-science-that-laws-should-apply-online-too-110402\/\">Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I write a letter to somebody, nobody has the right to intercept the letter in transit, break its seal and <strong>examine its contents<\/strong> unless I am under formal, individual and prior suspicion of a specific crime. In that case, law enforcement (and only them) may do this. Of course, I am never under any obligation to help anybody open and interpret my letters. It is perfectly reasonable to demand that this applies online as well.<\/p>\n<p>When I write a letter to somebody, no third party has the right to <strong>alter the contents<\/strong> of the letter in transit or <strong>deny its delivery entirely<\/strong>. Shouldn\u2019t it be perfectly reasonable to demand that this applies online as well?<\/p>\n<p>When I write a letter to somebody, nobody has the right to stand at the mailbox and demand that they be able to <strong>log all my communications<\/strong>: who I am communicating with, when, and for how long. Again, to demand that this applies online as well would only be logical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty good questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is It Rocket Science That Laws Should Apply Online Too? When I write a letter to somebody, nobody has the right to intercept the letter in transit, break its seal and examine its contents unless I am under formal, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8355\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}