Using Twitter to defy the Government in Iran: Good. Using Twitter to defy the Government in Pittsburgh: Bad.
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Ali , Tehran:
Oct 6 2009
Made Popular Oct 6 2009
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On Thursday, F.B.I. agents descended on a house in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent 16 hours searching it. The most likely reason for the raid: a man who lived there had helped coordinate communications among protesters at the Group of 20 summit in...
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Chad
Oct 6 2009
Pretoria,
South Africa
You go, you brave twitterers! It's the best use of that technology I've ever heard of!
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I'm glad to see someone noting the utter hypocrisy of our leaders, commending the use of twitter by Iranian protestors (because they mean nothing but ill to Iran and its people) and criminalising it when American protestors employ the same techniques. But of course when the American establishment arrests, detains and charges dissidents, this isn't repression. How wonderful it is to be western and christian and so utterly free from any sin.
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And, of course, you are always free to complain in the privacy of your home or other soundproof space.
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I'm glad to see someone noting the utter hypocrisy of our leaders, commending the use of twitter by Iranian protestors (because they mean nothing but ill to Iran and its people) and criminalising it when American protestors employ the same techniques. But of course when the American establishment arrests, detains and charges dissidents, this isn't repression. How wonderful it is to be western and christian and so utterly free from any sin.
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And, of course, you are always free to complain in the privacy of your home or other soundproof space.
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You go, you brave twitterers! It's the best use of that technology I've ever heard of!
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