{"id":179362,"date":"2018-03-06T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/gee-you-think-7\/"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:26:00","slug":"gee-you-think-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/06\/gee-you-think-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee, You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XmLh7.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a>Some days, it&#8217;s Republicans who stun me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Some days, it&#8217;s Donald Trump who stuns me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Some days, it&#8217;s Democrats who stun me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Some days, it&#8217;s Monsanto who stuns me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations.<\/p>\n<p>And then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/03\/06\/facebook_regrets_survey_on_how_it_should_handle_men_asking_girls_for_explicit_pix\/\">there is Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Facebook has apologized for sending out a survey to find out how the social network should respond when adult men ask teenaged girls for sexually explicit images. <\/p>\n<p>The survey, which went out to an undisclosed number of users of the social network over the weekend, posed this question: <\/p>\n<p>In thinking about an ideal world where you could set Facebook&#8217;s policies, how would you handle the following: a private message in which an adult man asks a 14 year old girl for sexual pictures. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">This content should be allowed on Facebook, and I would not mind seeing it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">This content should be allowed on Facebook, but I don&#8217;t want to see it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">This content should not be allowed on Facebook, and no one should be able to see it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">I have no preference on this topic. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Missing is any acknowledgement that soliciting sexual imagery from minors is a crime in many countries, including the US and the UK, to say nothing of facilitating the distribution of such content on your website.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How I long for the quiet competence and high moral standards that Microsoft showed (only by comparison) when it ruled the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days, it&#8217;s Republicans who stun me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations. Some days, it&#8217;s Donald Trump who stuns me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations. Some days, it&#8217;s Democrats who stun me with their ability to exceed my lowest expectations. Some days, it&#8217;s Monsanto who stuns me with their &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":[365,364,367],"class_list":["post-179362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-evil","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179362"}],"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=179362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}