{"id":241,"date":"2005-01-14T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2005-01-13T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T20:54:16","slug":"republicans-resort-to-cybersquatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Republicans resort to cybersquatting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like republicans in Massachussetts are <em>so<\/em> worried about losing, and <em>so<\/em> desperate to stifle competition from potential Democratic candidates, that they&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2005\/01\/10\/republicans_snare_reilly_for_governor_internet_sites\/\">resorted to cybersquatting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The party paid $200 last week to register four Web site names that Attorney General Tom Reilly might have wanted to use if he runs &#8212; as expected &#8212; against Republican Gov. Mitt Romney in 2006, the Boston Herald reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The names include reillyforgovernor.com, tomreillyforgovernor.com, reillyforgovernor2006.com and reillyforgovernor06.com.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP hasn&#8217;t put any content on the sites, yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was bought with the intention to have some fun if he is indeed the nominee,&#8221; Republican party executive director Tim O&#8217;Brien told the newspaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind if <em>fun<\/em> can one actually have in these kinds of underhanded tactics to stifle an opponenet&#8217;s voice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom reillt, a hopeful democratic gubernatoiral cadidate in Massachusetts, faces an uphill battle in getting his web site set up as the Republicans have snatched up web domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}