{"id":18376,"date":"2012-07-05T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T04:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2012-07-05T01:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T04:41:46","slug":"air-force-atheists-report-christianfighterpilot-com-as-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/05\/air-force-atheists-report-christianfighterpilot-com-as-hate-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Atheists Report ChristianFighterPilot.com as Hate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems an Air Force Airman was upset that he was unable to access an atheist blog while he was on duty.\u00a0 To try to prove he was experiencing discrimination, he apparently tried to access ChristianFighterPilot.com from the same government computer\u00a0and was successful.\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/americanatheistsmilitary\/#!\/groups\/americanatheistsmilitary\/permalink\/429560937083748\/?comment_id=432270276812814&amp;offset=0&amp;total_comments=21\">couldn&#8217;t have that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/facebook1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"131\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;contractor&#8221; is largely an automated filtering system that frequently stirs debate over the sites it blocks and allows.\u00a0 Many blogs are blocked simply <!--more-->because they are blogs &#8212; that is, if they are formatted and recognized that way.\u00a0 The young atheist activist apparently failed to understand the nuances of the websites he was comparing (his accusation about format was inaccurate).<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you&#8217;re an atheist or a Christian, or whether you&#8217;re looking up an atheist or a Christian website: There is little reason to be doing it from a government computer.\u00a0 The military does allow a certain amount of &#8220;morale&#8221; web-surfing, which is remotely related to why most bases now allow YouTube and Facebook.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re going to take your little &#8220;mental health break&#8221; and update the world on your Facebook status during the duty day, fine.<\/p>\n<p>As to a military member trying to get the government to block websites by calling them &#8220;hate speech&#8221; because of disagreement with their faith perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems an Air Force Airman was upset that he was unable to access an atheist blog while he was on duty.\u00a0 To try to prove he was experiencing discrimination, he apparently tried to access ChristianFighterPilot.com from the same government computer\u00a0and was successful.\u00a0 He couldn&#8217;t have that: The &#8220;contractor&#8221; is largely an automated filtering system that frequently stirs debate over [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,20,2,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-18376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-atheism","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}