{"id":1478,"date":"2007-07-30T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-07-30T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T19:54:12","slug":"jonathan_hari_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Hari, Champion Of Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Hari &#8211; who wrote the article on Nick Cohen&#8217;s book that I was interested in blogging about &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2007\/07\/30\/nick_cohen_v_johann_hari.php\" target=\"browser\">has threatened Harry&#8217;s Place blogger david t<\/a> with a defamation action for his post on Hari&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction is to wonder if calling someone a &#8220;dickhead&#8221; is defamation under British law.<\/p>\n<p>My second was to go to Google and look at the cached copy of david&#8217;s post; I have no clue what in the world Hari could find &#8216;defamatory&#8217; in it. Go look yourself, and let me know why he&#8217;d make an outrageous claim like that. And consider yourself blessed if you don&#8217;t live in the UK where laws like that slowly choke the free expression of ideas.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird, again how the right was so into suppression when I was young, and now the Left is. Maybe they all reread their Marcuse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More crushing of dissent and opinion. It&#8217;s The Man, I tell you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}