{"id":181315,"date":"2016-08-02T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/02\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-12\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T23:50:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/02\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lmlLsB2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/lmlLsB2.gif\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a>In a fit of political pandering, <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/08\/cuomo-meaninglessly-bans-sex-offenders-from-pokmon-go.html\">Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order banning sex offenders from playing Pokemon Go<\/a> while declining a law intended to facilitate prosecution of child rape into law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Governor Anthony Cuomo, never afraid to take quick and decisive action on the issues facing New York, announced today that all 3,000 of New York\u2019s sex offenders will be prohibited from \u201cdownloading, accessing, or otherwise engaging in any internet-enabled gaming activities, including <i>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cProtecting New York\u2019s children is priority number one and, as technology evolves, we must ensure these advances don\u2019t become new avenues for dangerous predators to prey on new victims,\u201d said Cuomo in a statement. \u201cThese actions will provide safeguards for the players of these augmented reality games and help take one more tool away from those seeking to do harm to our children.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">To that end, Cuomo will have the Division of Criminal Justice Services provide a current list of sexual offenders to Niantic Inc., the creator of Pok\u00e9mon Go, as well providing the same list to Apple and Google. Parole officers will also be trained in how to check and see whether their parolees have been playing any internet-enabled games.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Meanwhile, left sitting on Cuomo\u2019s desk at the end of this year\u2019s legislative session was a bill that would have lengthened the statute of limitations on sexual-abuse cases by five years; given officials a six-month window to revisit old cases; and eliminated the difference in how public and private organizations (i.e., the Catholic Church) would be treated when it comes to child-sexual-abuse cases.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cause of this?&nbsp; A grandstanding state senator who found that some Pokeman were located within a few blocks of sex offenders&#8217; houses \u2026\u2026\u2026 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>You can find anything within a few blocks of sex offenders&#8217; houses \u2026\u2026\u2026 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The stupid,&nbsp; it burns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fit of political pandering, Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order banning sex offenders from playing Pokemon Go while declining a law intended to facilitate prosecution of child rape into law: Governor Anthony Cuomo, never afraid to take quick and decisive action on the issues facing New York, announced today that all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,969,1087,1041,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-evil","category-gaming","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}