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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The problem is that the Homeland Security people can't seem to tell the difference between "crying fire in a crowded theater," which is not protected by the 1st Amdmt. and a genuinely funny or unfunny attempt to be humorous. Given 9/11, can they really be blamed for erring on the side of not laughing ? </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I really hate what we now must go thru to get on a plane, but I might not even be around to hate it if someone got on a plane with a bomb. So I'd rather just keep the hating to myself.<br>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bests, Rony<br>
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gang" <wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de><br>
To: governance <governance@lists.igcaucus.org>; Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob@gmail.com><br>
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Subject: AW: [governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Hi
is "joking" protected by the first amendement of the US constitution and part of
Article 19 (right to freedom of exression) of the UN Human Rights Declaration?
wolfgang
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Betreff: [governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US
31 January 2012 Last updated at 12:51 GMT
Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US
Post-9/11 USA is highly cautious of any perceived threat, Abta said
Holidaymakers have been warned to watch their words after two friends were
refused entry to the US on security grounds after a tweet.
Before his trip, Leigh Van Bryan wrote that he was going to "destroy America".
He insisted he was referring to simply having a good time - but was sent home.
Trade association Abta told the BBC that the case highlighted that holidaymakers
should never do anything to raise "concern or suspicion in any way".
The US Department for Homeland Security picked up Mr Bryan's messages ahead of
his holiday in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old bar manager wrote a message to a friend on the micro-blogging
service, saying: "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy
America."
The Irish national told the Sun newspaper <<a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html" target="_blank">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4095372/Twitter-news-US-bars-friends-over-Twitter-joke.html</a>>
that he and his friend Emily Bunting were apprehended on arrival at Los Angeles
International Airport before being sent home.
"The Homeland Security agents were treating me like some kind of terrorist," Mr
Bryan said.
"I kept saying they had got the wrong meaning from my tweet."
No joke
Abta, which represents travel companies in the UK, said holidaymakers need to
learn to be ultra-cautious when it comes to talking about forthcoming trips,
particularly after 9/11.
Continue reading the main story <<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312#story_continues_2" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312#story_continues_2</a>>
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Airport security staff do not have a sense of humour when it comes to potential
risk"
Abta
"Posting statements in a public forum which could be construed as threatening -
in this case saying they are going to "destroy" somewhere - will not be viewed
sympathetically by US authorities," it told the BBC.
"In the past we have seen holidaymakers stopped at airport security for 'joking'
that they have a bomb in their bag, thoroughly questioned and ending up missing
their flights, demonstrating that airport security staff do not have a sense of
humour when it comes to potential risk."
In another tweet, Mr Bryan made reference to comedy show Family Guy saying that
he would be in LA in three weeks, annoying people "and diggin' Marilyn Monroe
up".
Mr Bryan told the newspaper that he was questioned for five hours about his
Twitter messages.
'Tweeter account'
After the interview, Homeland Security's reported: "Mr Bryan confirmed that he
had posted on his Tweeter website account that he was coming to the United
States to dig up the grave of Marilyn Monroe.
"Also on his tweeter account Mr Bryan posted he was coming to destroy America."
Paul Chambers was fined after posting a message about Robin Hood Airport
The US Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement that it tried to
maintain a balance between "securing our borders while facilitating the high
volume of legitimate trade and travel that crosses our borders every day".
It added: "We strive to achieve that balance and show the world that the United
States is a welcoming nation."
Mr Bryan is not the only person to suffer from a misjudged tweet. In January
2010, Paul Chambers tweeted that he would blow snow-affected Robin Hood Airport
in Doncaster "sky high!" if it was not reopened in time for him to see his
girlfriend.
He was fined £385 plus £2,600 in costs - a sum which actor Stephen Fry offered
to pay on Mr Chambers' behalf.
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