Court Forces Twitter to Hand Over Occupy Tweets

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whimseh

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So people get prosecuted for actually standing up against a corrupt government but Westboro Baptist Church (cult) is allowed to protest at funerals?? kk makes sense
 

jossrik

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Politics only makes sense here to the people making the laws. More laws just makes more criminals, but every politician has to leave their mark. We here in the U.S. are slowly but surely giving away our freedoms.
 

Prince_Porter

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That's total BS. I can't wait for this news to spread, that's totally not cool. I can see getting access to his Tweets, but any other information is not theirs to have (IP, personal email, etc), as it's not available to the public.
 

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Since when did a privately owned server become public property? It's perfectly clear, privately owned server, means the data, aka the tweets are privately owned in a private space. Public speech is just that, speech done in public, which really isn't available online since most of the space is owned by someone. Even though people maybe able to view said information does not make it public domain.

 

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The one difference that the Judge is not considering is that someone cannot hack into my mouth and make me says things I don't want to, but someone can hack into my Twitter account and make "me" apparently shout things I don't want to.

Wonder if it is possible to prove definitively who made a tweet.
 

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[citation][nom]erunion[/nom]If they are public, why doesn't the court just google them?[/citation]
This is spot on, really. If the tweets really were public and akin to "shouting in public", then the court should be able to simply google them and would have no need to subpoena the tweets in the first place. The very fact that they cannot do such and the tweets are not available contradicts the notion that they are public.

Anything they cannot freely look up but have to force a private entity like Twitter to fork over should require a warrant, period, as the ACLU attorney said. Especially when the data contains private information as it does in this case.
 
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Why doesn't Twitter just have a random hardware failure and loss of data? ...
 

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Europe has the pirate party growing in popularity. Hope the US gets something like that too, although it is an extremely long shot since politicians in the US have legalized corruption, called it Lobbying, and are at the back pocket of the corporations, of course doing everything in their power to stay in such power position, including using the shouting in the streets and tweets to incriminate, because it is no longer a right to organize and stand up against oppression...
I think all of corporate leaders and politicians should be thrown off to the sea. To do that, people need to organize, and shout in public for the attention of those who don't know where to join in. Anything belonging to the already established political system is potentially corrupted already, so, shouting and street gathering is needed. But since they are making it illegal, then I hope it goes like: "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"... Sad state of the whole world, not just the US.
 

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The judge compared tweets to shouting in public

So how does that analogy make any sense at all??!

If you shout in public, it doesn't mean people know who you are or where you are from. And yet that is precisely what they have subpoenaed for.
 

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"What you give to the public belongs to the public. What you keep to yourself belongs only to you."

Why doesn't a song become mine the moment the artist places it on youtube? By the judges logic I should co-own millions of songs and movies.
 

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[citation][nom]klavis[/nom]Since when did a privately owned server become public property? It's perfectly clear, privately owned server, means the data, aka the tweets are privately owned in a private space. Public speech is just that, speech done in public, which really isn't available online since most of the space is owned by someone. Even though people maybe able to view said information does not make it public domain.[/citation]
Remember, people like you wanted open access on the internet..."internet freedom" as it were.

As such, the Judge (and rightly so), can subpoena the tweets as they are public facing. I do agree with you guys that the guys IP, etc, shouldn't be included. Just the tweets, time, and dates, since they can be viewed.
 

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[citation][nom]CrArC[/nom]So how does that analogy make any sense at all??!If you shout in public, it doesn't mean people know who you are or where you are from. And yet that is precisely what they have subpoenaed for.[/citation]
Until that shout in public leads to you being arrested, then your identity becomes known. Thus, your comparison is moot.
 

klavis

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[citation][nom]Marthisdil[/nom]Remember, people like you wanted open access on the internet..."internet freedom" as it were.As such, the Judge (and rightly so), can subpoena the tweets as they are public facing. I do agree with you guys that the guys IP, etc, shouldn't be included. Just the tweets, time, and dates, since they can be viewed.[/citation]

Freedom doesn't mean public domain, freedom to access what sites I want and to say what I want. That doesn't mean what I say is automatically public domain. I have the right to assemble at my house, with whom ever and how many people I want. That is a freedom, that doesn't mean the government can just come in and take take a recording of our conversations without a warrant. There are rules and terminology in place that can and does translate for the internet, the judge is trying to redefine those terms to what he thinks makes since, in essence creating legislation rather than judging a law.
 
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