[yial]

I was fascinated, but I cannot find any sources that say viewing the source is illegal. Reusing it as your own, yes if not licensed for that.

Viewing it? No. You’re viewing the rendered source code when you load the page?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071017/092927.shtml

[lowercased]

I think it was meant as a joke reference to a recent news piece where a state agency website had raw personal data in the source code, and 'view source' would show sensitive data (teacher data - names, social security numbers, etc).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-cal... is probably what was being referenced.

[oblib]

I live in Missouri, in the deep Red Ozark Mountains in the SW part of it and I shared an article on that on FB in a local group.

Our Governor really blew it on this one. Folks here will generally stand by their GOP Party and for the most part they never talk about Parson here but this really pissed them off.

I was surprised by the comments and the number of them. They are pissed about the incompetence of those who built the website and quite a bit more so that Parson would try to charge the journalist with a crime for finding it.

We're all just shaking our heads over that.

[uranusjr]

FYI the P in GOP already stands for Party.

[albemuth]

I LOLd out loud when I saw it

[oblib]

lol... yeah that was a typo. I make those sometimes to see if anyone will notice.

[techbio]

Isn't it a little strange that these red-staters don't even know their own name?

The lowercase "party" in my mind removes the redundancy as a class description for the collection of all political parties rather than as part of an abbreviated name for the one in question.

Unlike the "P" which stands for Preproccessor, in PHP.

Edit: whoops, they are both capitalized. Too bad I wrote with an ink pen.

[Mikeb85]

Joke but kinda real as some US state put sensitive info into HTML and is attempting to prosecute someone for finding it.

[ano88888]

got to find revenue for prisons