{"id":73,"date":"2018-04-16T13:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:34:47","slug":"wetherspoon-pub-chain-shuts-its-social-media-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/wetherspoon-pub-chain-shuts-its-social-media-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetherspoon pub chain shuts its social media accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that closing all social media accounts is the best way to go, but certainly the scaling back of use is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Its most telling that Weatherspoons has cited trolls as the key element, as I can understand that teaching people to be nicer online and even if you disagree with someone, don&#8217;t start calling their personal traits out as part of that disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>We can all be nasty when we&#8217;re effectively unknown or even anonymous, but most would not if they could and would be traced and worse still, possibly prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, some folk have been prosecuted for their online actions.<\/p>\n<p>Play safe, be nice and we can all get along much better with less nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-43781281<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure that closing all social media accounts is the best way to go, but certainly the scaling back of use is a good thing. Its most telling that Weatherspoons has cited trolls as the key element, as I can understand that teaching people to be nicer online and even if you disagree with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/wetherspoon-pub-chain-shuts-its-social-media-accounts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wetherspoon pub chain shuts its social media accounts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}