{"id":14233,"date":"2012-11-13T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=14233"},"modified":"2012-11-13T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:02:09","slug":"your-opinion-requested-on-internet-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/13\/your-opinion-requested-on-internet-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Your opinion requested on internet shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably already know that when Obama won the presidency a large number of people, many teenagers, tweeted racist comments about that.  Funny story: I found out about the use of the n-word in relation to the re-elected President in one person&#8217;s tweet, so I figured I&#8217;d investigate.  I went to twitter and entered the appropriate search terms, and found a bunch of hateful hideous tweets, as expected.  About 20 down I found my friend Debbie Goddard.  She had done the same search and tweeted about it.  Sort of like hearing a bad noise in the yard and when you go out there to check it out you find your neighbor also checking it out.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it turns out that Jezebel identified several high school students thusly tweeting and turned them into their high schools.  Subsequent to this, The Young Turks did a piece on Jezebel&#8217;s action.  The conversation among the Turks is interesting and reflects a lot of my own uncertainty about this situation. Below is TYS&#8217;s piece, please have a look and tell me what you think:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QE__WmMyfvo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably already know that when Obama won the presidency a large number of people, many teenagers, tweeted racist comments about that. Funny story: I found out about the use of the n-word in relation to the re-elected President in one person&#8217;s tweet, so I figured I&#8217;d investigate. I went to twitter and entered the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/13\/your-opinion-requested-on-internet-shenanigans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your opinion requested on internet shenanigans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[61,533],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3Hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}