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Councillor’s tweet leads to arrest as airport joker loses appeal: “A Conservative councillor has been arrested over a Twitter post that called for the stoning of a journalist, while another Twitter user has lost his appeal over a conviction for a message that said he would blow up an airport.“

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

The dangers of Internet censorship – The Boston Globe

By Harry Lewis, November 5, 2008

SUPPOSE that government regulators proposed to read all postal mail in order to protect families from things they should not see. Anything not legally prohibited would be delivered. Any unlawful words, pictures, or videos would be thrown away.

Sound like Orwell’s “1984,” or China? Perhaps.

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Good article.

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