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Twitter Boots Critic of NBC For Tweeting Exec's Email Address
netbuzz writes "Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for The Independent of London, had his Twitter account suspended today, allegedly for having violated a Twitter privacy policy when he tweeted the workplace email address of an NBC Sports executive. The Internet is abuzz with accusations – no make that assumptions – that Twitter muzzled Adams because Adams was tweeting up a storm of protest over NBC's coverage of the Games. However, Twitter says it was because it prohibits the tweeting of 'non-public, personal email addresses.' Whether Adams did that or not appears debatable."
Update: 07/31 17:48 GMT by S : Adams's Twitter account has been reinstated.
Why would anyone hold a moment of silence now, 7 years later? Because it's just such a great opportunity to advertise for the police state? Seems cynical, and cutting to different, more local commercials elsewhere seems sensible. After all, americans cannot buy the product that is sold with that moment, they are buying their own brand from their own politicians.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why this sentence is in the WP article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
That's kinda freaky, combined with that IMHO utterly fucking random "tribute" to the victims of those bombings. Unless of course the bombers stated that the London Olympics decision was their reason for the bombing, or something like that, you might as well say "the bombings took place 3 days after Edward Pillowtree of Southampton turned 87".
A very cynical person might point out that the decision to hold the Olympics there, as well as the attack, definitely facilitated a lot of new toys and powers for the (London) police, while it is unclear what they achieved for radical Islam, other than turning people away from it. But I'm not bothering with conspiracy theories anymore, none of the fuckers involved are worth it. I'm basically just saying "heh, so what." If they're riding the victims of those bombings that's bad enough, why should anyone else watch in on that? It's exactly like 9/11, in that unless you're caught in the hype, you can only shrug, and maybe get a flame-proof suit because you'll need it.
One thing is sure for me: The Olympics are a gigantic jerkfest; anyone involved, and anyone angry about any details of the broadcast is such a gigantic fuckwit, that any and all squabbles among you seem non-existant from this distance. It's just different stripes of the same bullshit.