{"id":33602,"date":"2013-12-05T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:13:03","slug":"theatlantic-david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-33602 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theatlantic-david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on\/attachment\/33603\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mxcrb4Kmia1qcokc4o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/69111742920\/david-simon-and-e-l-doctorow-on-the-potential\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/events\/archive\/2013\/12\/david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on-the-potential-for-the-orwellian-nightmare\/282063\/\"><strong>David Simon and E.L. Doctorow on \u2018the Potential for the Orwellian Nightmare\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s only the free and open Internet that allows \u2026 creativity and the free exchange of ideas to be heard.&rdquo; A fairly straightforward idea, especially for opening remarks at an event titled &ldquo;Who\u2019s Afraid of Free Speech?&rdquo; But Ross LaJeunesse, the Google executive who introduced the event\u2014which the company sponsored, and which was hosted by PEN and <em>The Atlantic\u2014<\/em>would find that idea tested, when panelists E.L. Doctorow and David Simon\u00a0name-checked Google\u00a0for its privacy policies.<\/p>\n<p>About 45 minutes into the event, a member of the audience asked a question, following up with a provocation: \u201cHave any of you been denied writing a column or article in the United States? No, you haven\u2019t, because we have free speech. But what we also have is Google. The NSA doesn\u2019t bother me. It\u2019s the information corporations can get on you and package into data that influences you, like the way you spend [money].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/events\/archive\/2013\/12\/david-simon-and-el-doctorow-on-the-potential-for-the-orwellian-nightmare\/282063\/\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a> <em>[Image: Kieran Guckian\/Flickr]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theatlantic: David Simon and E.L. Doctorow on \u2018the Potential for the Orwellian Nightmare\u2019 &ldquo;It\u2019s only the free and open Internet that allows \u2026 creativity and the free exchange of ideas to be heard.&rdquo; A fairly straightforward idea, especially for opening remarks at an event titled &ldquo;Who\u2019s Afraid of Free Speech?&rdquo; But Ross LaJeunesse, the Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8JY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33604,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33602\/revisions\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}