{"id":179311,"date":"2018-03-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/24\/holland-gets-it\/"},"modified":"2018-03-24T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:43:00","slug":"holland-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/24\/holland-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Dutch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-netherlands-referendum\/dutch-say-no-in-referendum-on-spy-agency-tapping-powers-idUSKBN1GX0QU\">have defeated expanded spying powers in a referendum<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Dutch voters have narrowly rejected a law that would give spy agencies the power to carry out mass tapping of Internet traffic delivering a setback to Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u2019s government.  <\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201ctrawling law\u201d by opponents, the legislation would allow spy agencies to install wire taps targeting an entire geographic region or avenue of communication, store information for up to three years, and share it with allied spy agencies. <\/p>\n<p>With 89 percent of the vote from a referendum counted on Thursday morning, the \u201cno\u201d vote was 48.8 percent, against 47.3 percent \u201cyes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The tapping law has already been approved by both houses of parliament. Rutte\u2019s government had backed a \u201cyes\u201d vote, saying the law was needed to make the country safer, and though the referendum was non-binding Rutte has vowed to take the result seriously<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the right thing, and I cannot imagine American voters doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Rutte is under no obligation to do anything about this, so I expect some cosmetic breast beating, and perhaps the creation of a do-nothing commission to study the program, which will allow Holland to spy on its citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch have defeated expanded spying powers in a referendum: Dutch voters have narrowly rejected a law that would give spy agencies the power to carry out mass tapping of Internet traffic delivering a setback to Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u2019s government. Dubbed the \u201ctrawling law\u201d by opponents, the legislation would allow spy agencies to install &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,375,371,481,367,366],"class_list":["post-179311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-intelligence","tag-internet","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}