Though affirmative punditshave declared Twitter for the most part responsible for for societal uprisingslike Arab Spring , the microblogging internet is hardly going to usher in a more liberated futurity . It ’s a business organization , after all , and it bends to the law like every other concern does . Over at Foreign Policy ’s Passport , Uri Friedman counts the shipway that Twitter looks more like a tool of the presentthan a herald of better tomorrows .
He writes that people who “ imperil violence ” on Twitter have been arrested :
before this week , DHS agents detained Irish traveler Leigh Van Bryan and a friend at Los Angeles International Airport and sent them back to Europe after Bryan tweeted that he was going to “ destroy America ” and grind up Marilyn Monroe during his misstep — references , he later say officials , to partying and the clowning show Family Guy , severally ( the incident conjured up memories of other jokes cash in one’s chips awry , such as when the Onion enraged the U.S. Capitol Police by tweeting , “ BREAKING : attestor report screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building ” ) . In 2009 , FBI agents cop an Oklahoma City humans name Daniel Knight Hayden for jeopardise on Twitter to stamp out law officers during a Tea Party taxation protestation . Hayden was sentenced to eight months in prison house .
Saying something on Twitter , it seems , is basically the same matter as say it straight to a police military officer ’s brass .
think of throw in Twitter now ? Well , you could also be arrested for failing to Tweet . Friedman write :
The handler for teen soda water superstar Justin Bieber and an Island Def Jam Records executive were get a span of years ago for not immediately strike down an show by Bieber at a Long Island mall over Twitter , as police requested dessert rooter grew unruly . Prosecutors charge the manager , “ Scooter ” Braun , with reckless peril and criminal pain but later on dropped the burster in commutation for Bieber immortalise a public service announcement on cyberbullying .
Read more about what you’re able to and ca n’t do on Twitter – under penalisation of law – at Foreign Policy ’s Passport .
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