[governance] Warrantless Surveillance?: Gov't Subpoenas OWS Activist's Twitter Records

[Riaz K Tayob]

Why are you surprised that this would happen in the US? Surely you did 
not get caught up in the right and left wing US exceptionalism on this list?

There is the Patriot Act and numerous other violations... including 
getting access to SWIFT data on almost every international financial 
transaction as well as phone operators being let off the hook for not 
protecting their USers phone records etc etc... when there are double 
standards applied to the likes of the US vs the debates on China we see 
the ugliness of civil society and the scholasticism of reason...

Things are changing now on this list, but Critical Internet Resources 
under the "control" of more transparent/accountable bodies may be a 
useful approach.. but then as NOW the computer professional jingoism 
will come into play - if it ain't broke don't fix it...

On 2012/02/23 11:57 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:
> omg seriously subpeonaing twitter...and in the US too, the world is 
> really going topsy turvy.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com 
> <mailto:riaz.tayob at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Published on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Common Dreams
>     <http://www.commondreams.org>
>
>
>         Warrantless Surveillance?: Gov't Subpoenas OWS Activist's
>         Twitter Records
>
>
>           Malcolm Harris: Subpoena dangerous because it might "produce
>           a chilling effect and discourage people from using Twitter
>           while protesting."
>
>     - Common Dreams staff
>
>
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