{"id":1133,"date":"2006-03-25T08:04:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2006-03-25T08:04:42","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T13:04:42","slug":"justin-watt-wins-parody-case-with-aclu-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/justin-watt-wins-parody-case-with-aclu-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Watt wins Parody case (with ACLU help)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/images\/asset_upload_file143_24716.gif\" alt=\"Justin and the parody\" align=right \/><br \/>\nFormer UNC student and current Californian Justin Watt received a cease and desist letter from Liberty Council representing Exodus International calling for Justin to remove an image from <a href=\"http:\/\/justinsomnia.org\/\">his Justinsomnia blog<\/a>. The image a clear parody of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exodus.to\/news_2005_0615PR.shtml\">Exodus&#8217; billboards inviting uphappy gays to try to become straight.<\/a> Justin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/justinsomnia.org\/2006\/03\/a-response-to-liberty\/\">mod invites unhappy straight people to become gay.<\/a><br \/>\nJustin, instead of ceasing or desisting, contacted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/\">ACLU<\/a>. Justin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenwick.com\/\">new ACLU lawyers<\/a> countered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt\/discrim\/24718lgl20060322.html\">a strong letter of their own [PDF]<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/lgbt\/discrim\/24716res20060322.html\">Reports are that Liberty\/Exodus has since backed off.<\/a><br \/>\nAdditional coverage in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2006-03-23-aclu-blog-case_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/24\/justin_watt_and_aclu.html\">boingboing.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UNC student and current Californian Justin Watt received a cease and desist letter from Liberty Council representing Exodus International calling for Justin to remove an image from his Justinsomnia blog. The image a clear parody of Exodus&#8217; billboards inviting uphappy gays to try to become straight. Justin&#8217;s mod invites unhappy straight people to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}