{"id":14576,"date":"2016-09-27T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14576"},"modified":"2016-09-27T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T11:37:50","slug":"the-wi-fi-at-the-presidential-debate-cost-200-and-alternatives-were-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-wi-fi-at-the-presidential-debate-cost-200-and-alternatives-were-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wi-Fi At The Presidential Debate Cost $200 And Alternatives Were Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/092716_0547_TheWiFiAtTh1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was an American Presidential debate yesterday! Centives is here to bring you coverage of the important issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The logisticians behind the first Presidential debate required journalists to pay $200 if they wanted to use the Wi-Fi.<\/li>\n<li>Worse; they explicitly banned the use of personal hot spots created through cell phones and other devices. A $2,000 hot-spot scanner was used to find and kick out journalists breaking the rules.<\/li>\n<li>There are still workarounds. A hard wire or a Bluetooth tether can be used to create a Wi-Fi hot-spot that&#8217;s undetectable.<\/li>\n<li>And it&#8217;s a good thing that the workarounds existed. Before the debate started the $200 Wi-Fi network went down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the (il)legality of the practice and other details at <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2016\/09\/journalists-must-fork-over-200-for-wi-fi-at-presidential-debate\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an American Presidential debate yesterday! Centives is here to bring you coverage of the important issues: The logisticians behind the first Presidential debate required journalists to pay $200 if they wanted to use the Wi-Fi. Worse; they explicitly banned the use of personal hot spots created through cell phones and other devices. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/092716_0547_TheWiFiAtTh1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14579,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions\/14579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}