{"id":5360,"date":"2017-10-27T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:19:39","slug":"you-killed-the-wiretapping-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/you-killed-the-wiretapping-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"We killed the wiretapping expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, the Massachusetts Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/RollCall\/190\/SenateRollCall227.pdf\">voted 22 to 14<\/a> to kill <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/190\/S2185\/Amendments\/Senate?pageNumber=4&amp;direction=asc&amp;sortColumn=AmendmentNumber\">amendment 87<\/a> that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Thankfully, a related amendment (#24) was withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Against pressure from the Governor, the AG, all the DAs&#8217; offices, and the police unions, we, the ACLU of Massachusetts, Restore the Fourth Massachusetts and other lovers of privacy defeated the most serious threat to our privacy in years.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who called and emailed their State Senators urging them to reject these amendments! Without your help, Massachusetts would be a less free commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, the Massachusetts Senate voted 22 to 14 to kill amendment 87 that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Thankfully,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[32,10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/201406InternetEmergencyRally2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}