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Tweet-Crime?
We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit.
Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh.
Is there a newsgathering angle here as well? Madison’s alleged tweet-crime raises First Amendment issues, certainly, and we will be particularly interested to see if it opens the “what is a journalist” Pandora’s box.
EFF has Madison’s motion seeking the return of his confiscated property. We’ll be following this with interest…
Is Tweeting a Crime?
Posted by Adri in first amendment, web 2.0 on October 5, 2009
Huffington Post is reporting that a WTO protester was arrested and charged with “hindering prosecution” for using Twitter to direct protester movements at a demonstration against the G20 economic summit in Pittsburgh.
FBI agents subsequently executed a search warrant at the man’s home, where they seized computers, political writings and anarchist literature.
In other news, you can buy a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook on Amazon here for just $19.77
From what I can tell, it’s got no mention of organizing demonstrations . . . although it may warrant mentioning that there is a section on “electronic sabotage and surveillance.”