{"id":1631,"date":"2012-05-02T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T09:28:00","slug":"the-front-line-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-front-line-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The front line of politics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are unhappy with the effectiveness of the political process, but just accept government by corrupt elected officials and inflexible, antiquated bureaucracy.\u00a0 Others are trying to change the way we do things.\u00a0 Like marches for civil\u00a0 rights, they facilitate speech on the internet when strong arm tactics are trying to quite the voices of dissent.\u00a0 We all praised the work of those that enabled the liberation of Egypt last year.<\/p>\n<p>It is technically challenging work and while there is a risk of incaceration and even violence from potent incumbents these &#8220;radicals&#8221; depreciate their own safety to support liberty.\u00a0 Have a look at this video to see how good it feels to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-header\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17914501\">Anonymous &#8216;hactivist&#8217; goes public on cyber protests<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17914501<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people are unhappy with the effectiveness of the political process, but just accept government by corrupt elected officials and inflexible, antiquated bureaucracy.\u00a0 Others are trying to change the way we do things.\u00a0 Like marches for civil\u00a0 rights, they facilitate speech on the internet when strong arm tactics are trying to quite the voices of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-front-line-of-politics\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The front line of politics.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"categories":[12,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-qj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}