{"id":5400,"date":"2017-11-15T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:01:11","slug":"wiretapping-amendments-are-finally-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/wiretapping-amendments-are-finally-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiretapping Amendments are finally dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night the Massachusetts House voted down or had withdrawn the three amendments that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/you-killed-the-wiretapping-expansion\/\">again defeated<\/a> the most serious threat to our privacy in years.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who called and emailed their State Representatives urging them to reject these amendments! Without your help, our commonwealth would be less free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night the Massachusetts House voted down or had withdrawn the three amendments that would have expanded our wiretapping laws dramatically. Against&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[32,8,10,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-organizing","category-privacy","category-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/201406InternetEmergencyRally2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5401,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions\/5401"}],"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=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}