{"id":191548,"date":"2009-07-29T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/29\/there-can-only-be-one\/"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T22:44:00","slug":"there-can-only-be-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/29\/there-can-only-be-one\/","title":{"rendered":"There Can Only Be One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img16.imageshack.us\/img16\/151\/rszireport15170571.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img196.imageshack.us\/img196\/8075\/ireport.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"357\" \/>It appears that someone idiot at AT&amp;T&#8217;s ISP division decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13577_3-10296152-36.html?tag=nl.e703\">block the anarcho-absurdist site 4chan from their customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours a fictitious report of the death of AT&amp;T&#8217;s CEO from a cocaine overdose following a gay prostitution binge (it implies that he was a &#8220;bottom&#8221;) appeared on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;citizen journalism&#8221; site iReport.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, while the folks at 4chan are nice people, much like Bruce Banner, you <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> don&#8217;t want to make them angry, because if they put their minds to it, it can get ugly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Postscript<\/span>:  ATT has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/07\/4chan\/\">apparently removed the block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I have only visited 4chan briefly, and my experience was that everyone there was swell, totally righteous, and that under no circumstances should anyone, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ever<\/span>, frack with them.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, nothing in this post should be construed as a criticism of 4chan.  I am criticizing AT&amp;T, and the &#8220;stupid&#8221; and &#8220;wanker&#8221; tags are directed at the telecommunications company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that someone idiot at AT&amp;T&#8217;s ISP division decided to block the anarcho-absurdist site 4chan from their customers. Within hours a fictitious report of the death of AT&amp;T&#8217;s CEO from a cocaine overdose following a gay prostitution binge (it implies that he was a &#8220;bottom&#8221;) appeared on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;citizen journalism&#8221; site iReport. Seriously, while &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1092,1048,997,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-humor","category-internet","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191548"}],"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=191548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}