{"id":3639,"date":"2018-08-28T18:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2018-08-28T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:43:27","slug":"authoritarians-do-the-strangest-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarians Do the Strangest Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, the &#8220;Church&#8221; of Scientology was establishing a web presence consisting of <a href=\"\/blog\/old\/2004\/06.html#09110831\">hundreds of eerily conformist &#8220;individual&#8221; web pages<\/a> for its members. (The site in question is now long gone, of course.) I don&#8217;t know how many people were stupid enough to fall for it, but it was beyond me how such an effort could prove even remotely convincing.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/08\/23\/what-is-this-weird-twitter-army-of-amazon-drones-cheerfully-defending-warehouse-work\/\">Amazon is stealing that page<\/a> from the Scientoligists&#8217; playbook, this time with Twitter accounts instead of home pages. Again, it&#8217;s beyond me how anyone could find this even remotely convincing.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I&#8217;m an anarchist in a world of capitalism and government fans. Maybe most people really <em>do<\/em> find it convincing when people say stuff even though it&#8217;s transparently obvious that it&#8217;s being coerced out of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, the &#8220;Church&#8221; of Scientology was establishing a web presence consisting of hundreds of eerily conformist &#8220;individual&#8221; web pages for its members. (The site in question is now long gone, of course.) I don&#8217;t know how many people were stupid enough to fall for it, but it was beyond me how such an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}