{"id":278719,"date":"2025-10-05T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278719\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:25:09","slug":"letter-in-favor-of-internet-content-control-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/278719\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: In favor of internet content control | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your five-part editorial series on re-establishing civil discourse was excellent. However, limiting children\u2019s use of electronic and social media will be a major challenge. World historians have ranked Gutenberg\u2019s offset printing press as the greatest contribution to the progression of mankind. The internet is simply a progeny thereof. However it is both seductive and infectious. I believe it would be more effective to control its content rather than restrict its use.<\/p>\n<p>We love free speech, but conversely we legally exclude libel and slander from its use. So, collaterally, we need to pass legislation that restricts the use of on-line communications that serve to aide and abet criminal activity against society, with both criminal and civil remedies. Once a few have been made examples of, then such rhetoric will begin to disappear from the \u201cnet,\u201d as well as printed material.<\/p>\n<p>Everything has a limit, and even Democrats should be able to realize that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your five-part editorial series on re-establishing civil discourse was excellent. However, limiting children\u2019s use of electronic and social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":278720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[712,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-278719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115319663676507389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}