{"id":1203,"date":"2010-03-22T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:31:42","slug":"like-money-the-internet-is-used-for-evil-as-well-as-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/like-money-the-internet-is-used-for-evil-as-well-as-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet, like money, is used for evil as well as good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is sad news.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8579310.stm\">internet is facilitating trade in endangered species<\/a>.\u00a0 I like the internet and I like nature, so it is painful to see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8579310.stm\">that headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the internet, like money, is not evil, but can be used for evil as well as for good.\u00a0 It reflects the values of the people that use it.\u00a0 Overall the internet will promote positive values because it liberates information and communication.\u00a0 And it lowers transaction costs.\u00a0 Whether the behaviour of people trading endangered species changes may be influenced by the internet too, unfortunately even wealthy educated people often behave in a primitive way.\u00a0 The sooner social leaders set the right example, the sooner behaviour will improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is sad news.\u00a0 The internet is facilitating trade in endangered species.\u00a0 I like the internet and I like nature, so it is painful to see that headline. Of course, the internet, like money, is not evil, but can be used for evil as well as for good.\u00a0 It reflects the values of the people &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/like-money-the-internet-is-used-for-evil-as-well-as-good\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The internet, like money, is used for evil as well as good.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldofmoney","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-jp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}