{"id":1744,"date":"2025-01-24T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1744"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:28:50","slug":"we-know-whats-best","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/portfolio\/we-know-whats-best\/","title":{"rendered":"We Know What&#8217;s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The editorial cartoon comments on the recent U.S. government bans on social media apps. Personally, I oppose banning apps and websites unless the crimes or societal threats are far more severe than another country targeting users and profiting from ads. The underlying anti-Chinese, anti-tech sentiment seems rooted in the fact that China isn\u2019t a free country. They censor their internet. Responding to them by making our own country less free, censoring our internet, feels both counterproductive and hypocritical. It also feels unconsitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editorial cartoon comments on the recent U.S. government bans on social media apps. Personally, I oppose banning apps and websites unless the crimes or societal threats are far more severe than another country targeting users and profiting from ads. The underlying anti-Chinese, anti-tech sentiment seems rooted in the fact that China isn\u2019t a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[100,98],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1744","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-editorial-cartooning","portfolio_category-ink-watercolor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1744\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustinmarson.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}