"Limits of free speech tested by off-the-cuff online remarks" by Jill Lawless, Associated Press / December 12, 2010
LONDON — What’s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it’s a threat.
One man thought he was just bantering with his pals when he joked about blowing an airport sky-high. Another was reacting to a radio phone-in when he mused about stoning a journalist to death.
But it IS OKAY for LYING LEADERS and their MOUTHPIECE MEDIA to PROMOTE WARS that KILL MILLIONS!!
Because they made their throwaway comments on Twitter, both are in legal trouble.
And with the Wikileaks Operation behind them as a justification, governments will begin shutting down websites.
Their cases have outraged civil libertarians and inflamed debate about the limits of free speech in a Web 2.0 world. The Internet makes private jokes, tastes, and opinions available for public consumption, blurring the line between public and private in a way that has left the law gasping to keep up.
Kind of the way the AmeriKan CORPORATE MEDIA has BLURRED the LINE between NEWS and "infotainment," huh?
“I think people don’t have any idea of the potential legal ramifications of things they post on the Internet,’’ said Gregor Pryor, a digital media lawyer at Reed Smith in London. “Anything you post on Twitter can come back and haunt you.’’
And WHEN do WAR CRIMES CHARGES begin to HAUNT Bush, Cheney, Rice, Bliar, and that coterie of Israeli War Cabinet criminals?
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I never tweet, and I only text about Brett Favre because I despise that man.
