At 1:59 PM -0700 5/10/09, Henry McGilton (Boulevardier) wrote:
On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
<http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/05-6>http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/05-6
Those two concepts converged during the G-20 summit, when state police
arrested two New York men for using Twitter to inform protesters in
Pittsburgh about the movements of local officers.
Amazing how the First Amendment has degenerated into a catch-all escape hatch
to justify behaviour that in other countries would get people sent
to 're-education'
labour camps, or just plain shot . . .
Degenerated? I thought that was basically the point of the
First Amendment in the first place, that it guaranteed you rights
that would be made illegal by oppressive governments elsewhere.
FWIW, I think this is a perfectly reasonable use of free
speech, in a country that also has a right to free assembly. Well,
has one in theory, anyway....
Now, I wonder what the response might be if the police start using
twitter to counter
the twitterers . . .
Rather than using private radio channels to inform each other
about the movements of protesters, as they have been for decades?
What would be the point of that?
Cheers
David_______________________________________________
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