{"id":23830,"date":"2012-07-19T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2012-07-19T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:12:29","slug":"hello-kitty-internet-defense-league-to-fight-copyright-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/hello-kitty-internet-defense-league-to-fight-copyright-bullies","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty: Internet Defense League to Fight Copyright Bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23833\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"cat-sign-internet-defense-league\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cat-sign-internet-defense-league-250x134.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Sign: Internet Defense League\" width=\"250\" height=\"134\" \/>Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit and a number of other sites have joined forces to combat copyright crackdown legislation, through a distributed lobby group called the Internet Defense League.<\/p>\n<p>Launching on Thursday, the League offers code that webmasters can embed in their sites, so opposition to legislation such as ACTA or SOPA can be swiftly organised. &#8220;When the internet&#8217;s in danger and we need millions of people to act, the League will ask its members to broadcast an action,&#8221; the League&#8217;s website explains.<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, given the membership of the Cheezburger Network, the League&#8217;s equivalent to the bat signal is the &#8216;cat signal&#8217;, a sign representing what is the near-official mascot of the web. Expect to see it shining into the sky on Thursday night in London, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and, weirdly, Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia \u2014 the League&#8217;s launch parties are designed to coincide with the release of the new Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8216;loose coalition&#8217; of key web players, ranging from Mozilla and WordPress to Fark.com and the Cheezburger Network, has formed to organise flash campaigns against &#8216;bad laws and monopolies&#8217;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,34,69,49],"class_list":["post-23830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-community","tag-computers","tag-internet","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}