{"id":3971,"date":"2006-06-26T18:39:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/06\/26\/tim-berners-lee-captured-by-kidnappers\/"},"modified":"2006-06-26T18:39:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T01:39:11","slug":"tim-berners-lee-captured-by-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/tim-berners-lee-captured-by-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Berners-Lee captured by kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;d like to draw your attention to a very disturbing video. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide Web of Computer Internetting, has apparently been captured by terrorists. I say this because the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/webcast\/mit-berners-lee-net-neutrality-blogs-220k.ram\">Net Neutrality video clip<\/a> (proprietary format only, Linux need not apply) on his MIT blog looks like one of those &#8220;captured soldier recants&#8221; kind of things we occasionally get from the war zones. He&#8217;s reading a script, his eyes are flying around wildly, and there seems to be a distinct lack of conviction in his voice. More than anything, it reminds me of little Elian Gonzalez denouncing his father before they were reunited and returned to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Can we collect some money and pay the ransom for Sir Tim before he&#8217;s tortured again? Web 3.0 won&#8217;t be possible without his invaluable contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Power to the people, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to draw your attention to a very disturbing video. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide Web of Computer Internetting, has apparently been captured by terrorists. I say this because the Net Neutrality video clip (proprietary format only, Linux need not apply) on his MIT blog looks like one of those &#8220;captured soldier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/tim-berners-lee-captured-by-kidnappers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tim Berners-Lee captured by kidnappers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-123","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}