{"id":5097,"date":"2011-06-14T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2011-06-14T01:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T08:33:27","slug":"teabuggery-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/14\/teabuggery-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Teabuggery in Tennessee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican legislature and governor of Tennessee have passed a new law criminalizing online photos that upset others.  What upsets whom is a highly subjective matter, and apparently, anyone can claim to be a victim.  The mind boggles.  Perhaps the subject of the following photo should be jailed, as any picture of her could well be construed as upsetting.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"MBR\"You’ve heard, what you put online can end up costing you in the future. Now it could land you in jail.<\/p>\n

A Tennessee law that goes into effect next month bans ‘offensive or distressing’ images online. It’s a move that could make your twit-pics, even your facebook photos, a potential crime.<\/p>\n

Ryan Trotter uses facebook to memorialize his life and speak his mind. <\/p>\n

"I’m comfortable with how I express myself," said Trotter.<\/p>\n

So the idea that Tennessee now could crack down on picture posts doesn’t sit well with him. The state passed an amendment that means your online images could be a crime if they, "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress<\/strong>." And anyone who sees the snapshot can be a victim<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Looking at that picture leads me to think of her as President.  That\u2019s enough to frighten anyone!  Rachel Maddow has the story covered.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, as the resident TomCat, the notion of a poached pussy cat is somewhat intimidating. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

Frankly, I think those folks have been smoking insaniTEA.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican legislature and governor of Tennessee have passed a new law criminalizing online photos that upset others.  What upsets whom is a highly subjective matter, and apparently, anyone can claim to be a victim.  The mind boggles.  Perhaps the subject of the following photo should be jailed, as any picture of her could well […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}