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The micro-blogging website had argued that the posts belonged to activist Malcolm Harris and as such it would be violating fourth amendment privacy rights if it were to disclose the communications without first receiving a search warrant.
But a Manhattan judge ruled on Monday that under a timeline set out by federal law, a warrant is only needed for the final day’s worth of messages from Harris, who is accused of disorderly conduct in relation to a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge in October.
All other tweets prior to this date could legitimately be demanded by means of subpoena, it was ruled.
Twitter forced to release Occupy protester’s tweets to New York court | World news | guardian.co.uk
Just so you know your legal twattling rights…
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Moreover, the right to be forgotten can be asserted not only against the publisher of content (such as Facebook or a newspaper) but against search engines like Google and Yahoo that link to the content. In Argentina, which recognizes a version of the right to be forgotten, there are more than one hundred cases demanding the removal of user-generated content brought by entertainers and celebrities, such as the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Yesica Toscanini. As a result, when a user of Yahoo Argentina plugs Toscanini’s name into the Yahoo search engine, the result is a blank page and a judicial order.
A Grave New Threat to Free Speech From Europe
Proposed “right to be forgotten” legislation in the European Union threatens the infinite hive of attention-seeking, a.k.a. the Internet.
Source: tnr.com
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Coffee’s crime then was not so much the consumption of it, but the manner of its consumption—the coffee houses where men would gather and gossip, often about politics. The Enlightenment was not the only revolution to have been born out of coffee shops, and rulers were wise to try clamp down on them—so were wives concerned about their husbands misconduct, as evidenced by an English society formed in 1674 called “Women Against Coffee,” which organized petitions to ban the drink in the attempt to get their errant husbands to come back home.
The Devil’s Drink by Luke Fentress - Roundtable | Lapham’s Quarterly
The brief history of coffee bans. Some bans were for coffee’s “devilish” effects (thus the invention of Americano-style diluted coffee) but also for social reasons.
Coffee and tea were the social media original gangstaz.
Posted on October 18, 2011 with 4 notes
Source: laphamsquarterly.org
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If I send you a text and you don’t respond and then I see you tweet something or post something on Facebook, I know that you are straight up ignoring me.
Master the Delicate Art of Social Media Etiquette: Details
OH GOODNESS, I FEEL THIS. Friends, I do totally think you’re a shithead if you don’t answer my txt question but I see your inane twattling. Isn’t texting above social networking sites in the hierarchy of personal connections? Why are you in my phone’s contact list if you prioritize your imaginary online so-called friends? PAY ATTENTION TO ME!
Comedian Nick Kroll wrote this list and I think you should read it like I nailed it to your virtual front door like Martin Luther (yeah, the OG not Junior) did with his 95 Theses.
Posted on August 19, 2011 with 1 note
Source: details.com
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This is why Twitter can be so ZOMG.
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According to Ben, each of the roughly ten Manrods received the password from Landis. They interact via Twitter’s Direct Message feature, but few of them know who the others are. Landis acknowledged tweeting through the account up until a couple of weeks ago, around the time Outside started reporting this story.
“He’s definitely tweeting,” says Ben. “There’s some madness there, but there’s a method, too. The joke he keeps making is that someday he’s going to have to explain all this to some poor jury.”
Floyd Landis’s Twitter Campaign Against Lance Armstong | Road Biking | OutsideOnline.com
This Outside story uses the hackneyed Fight Club reference to describe Floyd Landis’s online antics, but this @GreyManrod Twitter hydra is way more fresh and of consequence than Tyler Durden could ever hope to be. Until the stream went “full retard” unhinged a few weeks ago, I thought the whole Grey Manrod concept was Jonathan Swift meets Abbie Hoffman.
Maybe what Landis did wouldn’t impact the world at large, but the way he orchestrated his Twitter accounts is a 21st century addendum to Steal This Book. Instead of the usual doping/FDA investigation circular argument in traditional cycling media, Landis flipped over the listing ship of cycling to expose the rotting hull and made it the most entertaining, baffling spectacle we’ve seen in a while.
Lance Armstrong may have won (with an asterisk) seven Tours de France and have millions of Twitter followers, but he hasn’t done a lick to make me appreciate him even begrudgingly. Floyd Landis, on the other hand, converted me from ambivalence to marvel. For me to use Jonathan Swift and Abbie Hoffman as touchstones to someone’s Twitter campaign—well, it has to impress me, and Landis sure did with equal measures of recklessness and cleverness. I can only wish him well so he can surprise and delight this wannabe Yippie.
Posted on July 11, 2011 with 2 notes
Source: outsideonline.com
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Post-publication peer review—and open science in general—is attracting a growing number of followers in the scientific community. But some critics have argued that it’s been more successful in theory than in practice. The #arseniclife affair is one of the first cases in which the scientific community openly vetted a high-profile paper, and influenced how the public at large thought about it.
The curious case of #arseniclife hashtag having a life of its own while the arsenic-eating microbes of Mono Lake were kind of bunk.
Posted on June 2, 2011 with 1 note
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Man's Twitter followers recover stolen laptop - Technology & science - Security - msnbc.com
A laptop security software and 12k followers on Twitter equals a successful ad hoc sting operation to recover a stolen laptop and bag.
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After the first week, the teams were allowed to tweak their bot’s code and to launch secondary identities designed to sabotage their competitors’ bots. One team unleashed @botcops, which alerted users, “You might want to be suspicious about JamesMTitus.” In one exchange, a British user confronted the alleged bot: “What do you say @JamesMTitus?” The robot replied obliquely, “Yeah, so true!” The Brit pressed: “Yeah so true! You mean I should be suspicious of you? Or that @botcops should be challenged?” JamesMTitus evaded detection with a vague tweet back—“Right on bro”—and acquired 109 followers over two weeks.
Are You Following a Bot? - Magazine - The Atlantic
Programmers created twitter bots that engage real human users and fool them into thinking they’re talking to humans. Companies and the military is interested in using such technology to astroturf or spread propaganda through social networks.
Source: The Atlantic
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But Justice Breyer dug right in. He said he had followed the recent Iranian uprising by monitoring a Twitter feed.
“The only way you could do it,” the justice said, “was to go through the Tweet or the tweeter.”
But he added that he doesn’t allow himself to have Twitter or Facebook followers.
“It’s not a good idea on balance,” he said to laughter. “Judges wear black robes so that they will resist the temptation to publicize themselves, because we really speak for the law and that is to be anonymous.”
Justices Kennedy and Breyer Testify at House Appropriations Hearing - ABC News
Supreme Court Justices wear black robes and locks on their tweeter accounts.
Posted on April 19, 2011 with 2 notes
Source: abcnews.go.com
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