{"id":10049,"date":"2011-06-10T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=10049"},"modified":"2011-06-10T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T12:10:57","slug":"our-idiotic-state-legislature-and-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/10\/our-idiotic-state-legislature-and-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Our idiotic state legislature and blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morons in the Tennessee State Legislature are at it again. The buzz on the Internet yesterday was about a law they passed this session, making it a crime for someone to publish images on the Internet that “another person could reasonably find offensive.” The law is clearly unconstitutional, but while it’s on the books, do bloggers have something to worry about? For example, suppose I embedded the video Propecia the Crack Whore Goes on a Blind Date<\/a> in a blog post. Could real-life crack whores find it offensive and press charges against me? (WARNING: If you click through to watch that video at work, use headphones.)<\/p>\n

I sure hope the state legislature has nothing against tube tops, or I may have to move to another state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The morons in the Tennessee State Legislature are at it again. The buzz on the Internet yesterday was about a law they passed this session, making it a crime for someone to publish images on the Internet that “another person could reasonably find offensive.” The law is clearly unconstitutional, but while it’s on the books, … Continue reading “Our idiotic state legislature and blogging”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10050,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions\/10050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}