{"id":20608,"date":"2016-02-01T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20608"},"modified":"2016-02-01T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:19:51","slug":"techdirt-dhs-official-thinks-people-should-have-to-give-up-their-anonymity-to-use-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20608","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: DHS Official Thinks People Should Have To Give Up Their Anonymity To Use The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160130\/09485033471\/dhs-official-thinks-people-should-have-to-give-up-their-anonymity-to-use-internet.shtml\">DHS Official Thinks People Should Have To Give Up Their Anonymity To Use The Internet<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, the only way to stop terrorists from hating us for our freedom is to strip away those offensive freedoms. <\/p>\n<p>Erik Barnett, the DHS&#8217;s attache to the European Union, pitched some freedom-stripping ideas to a presumably more receptive audience via an article for a French policy magazine. Leveraging both the recent Paris attacks and the omnipresent law enforcement excuse for any bad idea &#8212; child porn &#8212; Barnett suggested victory in the War on Terror can be achieved by stripping internet users of their anonymity. You know, all of them, not just the terrorists.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: DHS Official Thinks People Should Have To Give Up Their Anonymity To Use The Internet by Tim Cushing: Apparently, the only way to stop terrorists from hating us for our freedom is to strip away those offensive freedoms. Erik &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20609,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20608\/revisions\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}