{"id":13922,"date":"2013-07-10T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=13922"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T17:59:05","slug":"florida-may-have-accidentally-banned-access-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/07\/10\/florida-may-have-accidentally-banned-access-to-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida may have accidentally banned access to the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article, <a title=\"Rachel Maddow article\" href=\"http:\/\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.com\/_news\/2013\/07\/09\/19375081-florida-may-have-accidentally-banned-access-to-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida may have accidentally banned access to the Internet<\/strong><\/a>, comes from the Rachel Maddow show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on behalf of Incredible Investments, LLC, owned by Consuelo Zapata, alleges that the Legislature effectively applied the ban to all computers when it defined illegal slot machines as any &#8220;system or network of devices&#8221; that may be used in a game of chance. The state effectively made every smartphone and computer an illegal device, the plaintiff argues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just one more thing we northerners must be wary of when we vacation in Florida.\u00a0 I am sure that none of my relatives who live in Florida would ever consider playing a game of chance on the computer.\u00a0 However, that still may not absolve them of the crime.\u00a0 The device is illegal if it &#8220;may be used in a game of chance&#8221;.\u00a0 So even if you don&#8217;t actually use it in a game of chance, it is illegal.\u00a0 Sort of like possessing marijuana even if you don&#8217;t smoke it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, Florida may have accidentally banned access to the Internet, comes from the Rachel Maddow show. \u00a0The lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on behalf of Incredible Investments, LLC, owned by Consuelo Zapata, alleges that the Legislature effectively applied the ban to all computers when it defined illegal slot machines as any &#8220;system or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13923,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}