{"id":9304,"date":"2016-04-21T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9304"},"modified":"2016-04-21T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T19:20:47","slug":"dilbert-nails-cell-phone-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/dilbert-nails-cell-phone-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilbert Nails Cell Phone Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert has been mocking govt. surveillance of cell phones this week. The FBI-Apple brawl is a hoot &#8211; though I am amazed at how many politicians &amp; others still instinctively kowtow to federal intrusions. The government is apparently trustworthy simply because it is a government &#8211; regardless of it 7 million prior falsehoods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9305\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled-800x249.png\" alt=\"dilbert govt listens to your phone all day cartoon untitled\" width=\"800\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled-800x249.png 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled-150x47.png 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dilbert-govt-listens-to-your-phone-all-day-cartoon-untitled.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert has been mocking govt. surveillance of cell phones this week. The FBI-Apple brawl is a hoot &#8211; though I am amazed at how many politicians &amp; others still instinctively kowtow to federal intrusions. The government is apparently trustworthy simply because it is a government &#8211; regardless of it 7 million prior falsehoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,835,276,47,30],"class_list":["post-9304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartoon","tag-cell-phones","tag-dilbert","tag-fbi","tag-surveillance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dilbert Nails Cell Phone Surveillance - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/21\/dilbert-nails-cell-phone-surveillance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dilbert Nails Cell Phone Surveillance - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dilbert has been mocking govt. surveillance of cell phones this week. 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