{"id":4167,"date":"2010-05-24T14:17:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2010-05-24T14:17:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:17:24","slug":"thou-shalt-not-blaspheme-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thou-shalt-not-blaspheme-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou shalt not blaspheme democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Big Money<\/i> has a story about Pakistan blocking Facebook because of the &#8220;Everyone Draw Muhammed Day!&#8221; page. My issue? The title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigmoney.com\/blogs\/feeling-lucky\/2010\/05\/20\/week-despotism-google-edition?page=full\">This Week in Despotism, Google Edition<\/a>. Pakistan isn&#8217;t a despotism, it has a semi-functioning democracy, and, from what I gather the move was broadly popular in Pakistani society (though no doubt those praising the blockage in public are trying to figure out ways in private to evade the ban). I guess the idea of an illiberal democracy just isn&#8217;t going to gain much traction in the modern marketplace of ideas&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Money has a story about Pakistan blocking Facebook because of the &#8220;Everyone Draw Muhammed Day!&#8221; page. My issue? The title, This Week in Despotism, Google Edition. Pakistan isn&#8217;t a despotism, it has a semi-functioning democracy, and, from what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/thou-shalt-not-blaspheme-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[553,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}