{"id":1699,"date":"2007-02-19T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/what_would_book\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T16:25:31","slug":"what_would_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/what_would_book\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT WOULD BOOK BURNING LOOK LIKE ON THE INTERNET?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/photos\/uncategorized\/julie_amero.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Julie_amero\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Julie_amero\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/julie_amero.jpg?resize=125%2C120\" width=\"125\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> If you heard a story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drumsnwhistles.com\/2007\/02\/18\/julie-amero-persecution-of-the-innocent\/\">a teacher being prosecuted<\/a> and facing <em>40 years in prison<\/em> for exposing kids to pornography because a porn ad page popped up unsolicited while she was teaching, you&#8217;d think it was a joke, right?&nbsp; <em>Every<\/em>one understands about pop-ups, right?&nbsp; This story seems as absurd as the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">Senator Ted Stevens&#8217; &quot;tubes&quot; speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well apparently not.&nbsp; In Connecticut, Julie Amero, a seventh grade substitute teacher, faces 40 years in prison for just such an event.&nbsp; You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/46925\/\">a longer story<\/a> about it here, on AlterNet.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, she at least has some supporters.&nbsp; I learned of this story from Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochamomma.com\/2007\/02\/19\/if-i-write-porn-in-my-title-are-you-likely-to-read\/\">Mocha Momma<\/a> &#8212; a committed and very gifted teacher herself.&nbsp; She is sending all her readers t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drumsnwhistles.com\/2007\/02\/18\/julie-amero-persecution-of-the-innocent\/\">here <\/a>for the details.&nbsp; This site&#8217;s proprietor, Karoli, not only provides links to backup information; she&#8217;s also donating $1 for every posted comment.&nbsp; In later posts, she adds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drumsnwhistles.com\/2007\/02\/18\/julie-amero-more-info\/\">still more info &#8211; and links<\/a>. Take a look at them &#8211; and maybe even <a href=\"http:\/\/julieamer.blogspot.com\/\">the fund itself<\/a>.&nbsp; There&#8217;s more information there, too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very troubling and scary story &#8211; not only for the obvious civil liberties and injustices, but also for what it says about technological expertise among the powerful.&nbsp; What do you think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you heard a story of a teacher being prosecuted and facing 40 years in prison for exposing kids to pornography because a porn ad page popped up unsolicited while she was teaching, you&#8217;d think it was a joke, right?&nbsp; Everyone understands about pop-ups, right?&nbsp; This story seems as absurd as the legendary Senator Ted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/what_would_book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHAT WOULD BOOK BURNING LOOK LIKE ON THE INTERNET?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,9,51],"tags":[718,2318,2325,49,2319,2317,2323,2320,2324,2322,2321],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-politics","category-webtech","tag-censorship","tag-cyberporn","tag-defense-fund","tag-education","tag-ignorance","tag-julie-amero","tag-persecution","tag-popups","tag-prosecution","tag-sentences","tag-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}