[governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US

[Kerry Brown]

We'll have to disagree on this. I don't think monitoring public communications has any place in a free society. I know it happens. That doesn't mean I have to agree with or approve of it. It is too easily abused and it is too easily misinterpreted. 

Kerry Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-
> request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Pranesh Prakash
> Sent: January-31-12 10:48 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from
> US
> 
> Kerry Brown [2012-01-31 22:23]:
> > Why are the monitoring tweets in the first place?
> 
> Because most people would, and very rightly so, accuse them of laxity and
> dereliction of duty if they didn't.
> 
> I have not seen a single cogent argument as to why they should not.  If it is
> the duty of the immigration officers to prevent untoward foreigners from
> entering the country, then they should use all public information at their
> disposal, at the very least, to come to that conclusion.
> 
> It is another matter whether Twitter banter should form the basis of their
> opinions, but then you don't seem to be interested in that question.
> 
> --
> Pranesh Prakash
> Programme Manager
> Centre for Internet and Society
> W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283


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