Guatemalan Twitter User Arrested For "Inciting Panic"

talishte points out (with a snippet from BoingBoing) that "Amid protests in the streets and on social networks calling for Guatemala's president to step down after the assassination of a whistleblower attorney, Guatemalan police have arrested a Twitter user for 'inciting panic' through tweets. In the capital city today, police raided his home and confiscated his computer."

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Re:They confiscated his computer

[Itninja]

You can. Many do. It works better at broadcasting to a wide audience than SMS via a cell phone.