{"id":572,"date":"2005-07-15T15:02:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T19:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=572"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:42:32","slug":"more-unfounded-regulation-groan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/07\/15\/more-unfounded-regulation-groan\/","title":{"rendered":"More Unfounded Regulation (*groan*)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It just kills me sometimes to hear about these sorts of things. First it was a fear of using cell phones on planes. Now it’s a fear of using broadband Internet on planes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is just silly on so many levels that it’s hard to decide where to begin. This is a slippery slope, too – eventually every communications media will have to be regulated like this because it might <\/em>be used by terrorists.<\/p>\n

I think I’m going to go put on my tin foil hat and wait for Big Brother to knock on my door. Geez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First it was a fear of using cell phones on planes. Now it’s a fear of using broadband Internet on planes. This is just silly on so many levels that it’s hard to decide where to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-9e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":684,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/12\/01\/teen-drivers-and-cell-phones-dont-mix\/","url_meta":{"origin":572,"position":0},"title":"Teen drivers and cell phones don’t mix","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"What a surprise. 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