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Re:Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days by Locke1689 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:51PM (#3762759)
The important thing isn't that everyone can read it, it's that everyone can not read it. I think that limiting the freedom of speech based purely on speech which one can easily opt out of is pretty reprehensible.
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Re:Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days by ugh on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @01:54PM (#3762774)
It’s still public speech, though, and not in any way personal. I was responding to a comment that the government reading twitter and blogs is akin to reading emails which is total bullshit.
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Re:Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days by Locke1689 on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @02:14PM (#3762880)
True -- but what about mailing lists which can be publicly accessed? There's no "broadcast", but there's no protection either.
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