{"id":491,"date":"2002-06-14T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/2002\/06\/boybands-free-speech-and-dastardly-internet-piracy\/"},"modified":"2002-06-14T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-14T07:20:00","slug":"boybands-free-speech-and-dastardly-internet-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/2002\/06\/14\/boybands-free-speech-and-dastardly-internet-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"boybands, free speech, and dastardly internet piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In China, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22465-2002Jun9.html\">teen girls see hunks as dreamy, and route their way towards them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Nonetheless, the craze blossomed here and in Beijing. &#8220;There was no way they could block [Taiwanese boy band &#8220;Flowers Four&#8221;, and their TV show &#8220;Meteor Garden&#8221;] here. This is Shanghai,&#8221; said Zhang Lulu, a 19-year-old devotee of the group. <\/p>\n<p> She maintained that government bans cannot work in a society that also tolerates widespread pirating of compact discs and videos: &#8220;When girls like us have needs, there is nothing anyone can do to stop us.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So not only do I live in the future; I live in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0553576410\">Bruce Sterling<\/a> future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, teen girls see hunks as dreamy, and route their way towards them: Nonetheless, the craze blossomed here and in Beijing. &#8220;There was no way they could block [Taiwanese boy band &#8220;Flowers Four&#8221;, and their TV show &#8220;Meteor Garden&#8221;] here. This is Shanghai,&#8221; said Zhang Lulu, a 19-year-old devotee of the group. She maintained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}