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** Three: If a program contains some "educational and informative" information, they can legally count as an "E/I". Many talk shows got away with this because some provide information to the viewers.
* While profanity is strictly monitored on cable and broadcast television, it has to count if heard but [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|not mouthed off]]. This means, if a character lip sync the swear word without having it heard or replace it with an animal sound like a dolphin chirp or the classic bleep, a TV Network can get away with it.
* Many teenagers at a school in Mustang, OK got around the drug policy by using [https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005256/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-06-30/health/sfl-digital-drugs-063010_1_drug-abuse-miami-dade-county-public-schools-sounds so-called "digital drugs"] since they can't be found on a drug test. Officials [[Obvious Rule Patch|control the usage of MP3 players]] and blocked YouTube in attempted to regain control.
* While is banned alcohol in prisons, the materials to make a kind of alcohol known as [[wikipedia:Pruno|Pruno]] are still legal because prisons are required to make sure nutritional needs are meet. Some wardens have tried to [[Obvious Rule Patch|banned fresh fruits from leaving]] the cafeterias but that hasn't stopped inmates from getting alternatives.
* '''[[wikipedia:First Amendment to the United States Constitution|The First Amendment of the United States Constitution]]''': ''Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.''
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* When it comes to prisons, there are reasons why guards have to perform searches for weapons since inmates often can get crafty while confined in their cells. While having a weapon is illegal, the materials to make one aren’t often the case. The most common of prison-made weapon is a knife-like device known as a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_%28weapon%29 shiv]. The materials to made them are easy to find, making a shiv is simple, and it can be hidden almost anywhere with an easy reach. This makes stabbing a common form of attacks behind prison walls, both inmates and guards are fair game.
* Prisons are sadly not alone when it comes to stabbing. Schools are also at-risk for this. Although actually blade weapons like knives are banned and violators can face a harsh punishment for bringing one in, writing tools like pencils and pens are still allowed. This Nebraskan man [http://www.kcra.com/news/turlock-boy-stabbed-in-throat-with-a-pencil-at-school/24871574 learned of this] loophole when his son was stabbed by a pencil. Needless to say, the guy filed a police complaint when he learned the school didn't take the matter as seriously as he did.
* A bar owner in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182030/http://gazette.com/bar-owner-finds-long-sought-smoking-ban-loophole/article/95320 Colorado] was looking for a way to sneak by the smoking ban in order to keep his business running, which once allowed smoking in bars. The law banned smoking in indoor public places, but he managed to find a loophole after learning a tobacco shop was allowed to stay in business. What did the bar owner do but turn his business into a "cigar bar" since they were excused from the smoking ban.
* '''Averted''', [http://www.leagle.com/decision/1979743285Md458_1697.xml/THOMAS%20v.%20STATE This detainee], facing a robbery charge, sent a letter to a friend, requesting the killing of anyone willing to testify since guards in a Maryland Jail check incoming mail, not outgoing. However, he was caught when the postal office sent the letter back due to an error in the address.
* The concept of '''time shifting''', recording of programming to a storage medium to be view and/or listen on a different time, itself is a loophole. The famous '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc. Betamax case]''' was an argument over copyright since the technology of a VCR was released and allowed owners to record TV programs to be viewed at a later time. Sony argued that if the procedure is for "noncommercial" home use, it doesn't count as copyright infringement. A district court agreed with Sony, though Universal appealed in 1981. However, Supreme Court of the United States sided with Sony that the practice of time shifting was legal since it didn't cause any substantial harm to the copyright holder and would have an effect of the marketplace.
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* Back in 2009, and yes a clip of the case can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVyg_IBZGKE here], a teenager in Texas had trouble getting her car started and didn't want to be late for school. Luckily for her, she happened to have a horse since there wasn't any rule on what kind of mode of transport a student can take to school. This ended up a bit subverted, as the principal demanded to know why a horse was being brought in the first place after being asked.
* "Antique firearms" <ref>Short version: black powder weapons that don't use fixed cartridges</ref> are (despite the name) not legally firearms in the United States (though they are still a "deadly weapon" and some state laws do consider them so). There is indeed a market for concealed carry cap and ball revolvers.
* Going back on the ''BetaMax'' issue, the concept of home videos introduced a new market for many indie studios since the rating system only dealt with films released in the theaters at the time thanks to children being part of those going to them. However, it was often seen as a form of censorship, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160918115853/http://www.filmadvisoryboard.com/ratings/ rating system] for the DTV market wasn't around. This lead to many to simply release their films as DTV, but it meant a film meant for adults could end up in the hands of children. If you ever heard of [[Video Nasties]], well, you can thank to this loophole.
* The Center of Diseases Control and Prevention has released a graphic [https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/novel.htm novel] about zombies while United States Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP worked on training students in military planning, by using zombies. This was to due to another country could take the US military plans as a declaration of war. Since zombies were "fictional", both groups used this in order to inform the public on disease control and civil breakdown. [http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/05/16/dod.zombie.apocalypse.plan.pdf CONOP 8888] listed in the link.
* The semi-protection rule on MediaWiki sites such as [[Wikipedia]] in theory should deter if not prevent newly-registered vandal accounts from defacing articles protected under said rule, on the grounds that they should make a dozen or so legitimate edits to be given access to protected articles. However, enterprising trolls can take advantage of the sandbox feature by making innocuous edits for their account to count towards an autoconfirmed status, and thus be able to vandalise even supposedly-protected pages. This caused an issue when pages on contentious topics such as the state of [[Israel]] and [[The Holocaust]] became a prime target for vandalism and anti-Semitic sentiment even from autoconfirmed accounts, forcing Wikipedia to [[Obvious Rule Patch|adopt]] what is called an extended-confirmed protection rule where pages receiving heavier-than-normal vandalism or those that pertain to controversial subjects (by way of arbitration enforcement by Wikimedia staff) can only be edited by established accounts, as while giving the pages full protection (i.e. only admins can edit) would have been anathema to the site's principle of a "free encyclopedia", they wouldn't want to see anti-Semites, racists and trolls savage articles on Jewish subject matter and other controversial topics either.
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