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Twitter To Appeal Turning Over Protester's Messages
angry tapir writes "Twitter plans to appeal a ruling to turn over the once-public tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct, a case the company says threatens the First Amendment rights of its users. A New York Criminal Court judge ruled last month that Twitter should turn over the tweets of Malcolm Harris, since his messages were public and are not the same as an email or a private chat, which would require a search warrant."
What's the betting that protesters get way higher average sentences than the guy who has had too much to drink and is causing a nuisance in a public place.
Given the range of criminal behavior that the "Occupy" protesters have been involved with the chances are pretty high.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell