{"id":1823,"date":"2010-01-10T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2010-01-10T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:27:13","slug":"good-neighbors-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/01\/10\/good-neighbors-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Good neighbors online."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/11\/world\/asia\/11malaysia.html\">NYT<\/a> reports on political turmoil in Malaysia where religious identity is being exploited for partisan gain. <\/p>\n<p>I found this detail interesting: at least 180,000 Facebook users have joined a group protesting the use of the word Allah in a non-Muslim context in Malaysia. <\/p>\n<p>One of the ways Facebook has managed its growth is by encouraging  that its users create walls. Most likely, I can see your page only if we&#8217;re already friends. Good walls make <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mending_Wall\">good neighbors<\/a>, etc. <\/p>\n<p>But what of the group that is overtly political on a site that is not entirely governed by Malay law. If any of its members are one click away from a &#8220;neighbor&#8221; with different beliefs, shouldn&#8217;t they ask for a generalized ban?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT reports on political turmoil in Malaysia where religious identity is being exploited for partisan gain. I found this detail interesting: at least 180,000 Facebook users have joined a group protesting the use of the word Allah in a non-Muslim context in Malaysia. One of the ways Facebook has managed its growth is by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}