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"A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while
in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid
this week at home -- all for using Twitter. Elliot Madison faces
charges of hindering apprehension or prosecution, criminal use of a
communication facility and possession of instruments of crime. He
was posting to a Twitter feed (or tweeting, as it is called)
publicly available information about police activities around the G-
20 protests, including information about where police had issued
orders to disperse.
While alerting people to public information may not seem to be an
arrestable offense, be forewarned: Many people have been arrested
for the same "crime" -- in Iran, that is.
Last June 20, as Iranians protested against the conduct and results
of their national election, President Barack Obama said in a
statement, "The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be
respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to
exercise those rights."
His statement was released in English, Farsi and Arabic and posted
on the White House's very own Twitter feed. His tweet read, "We call
on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions
against its own people."
U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to pressure
European nations to restrict sales of eavesdropping technology to
Iran. They wrote: "Following recent elections, the Iranian
government has used a new communications monitoring center to
interfere with and suppress Internet and cell phone communications
as part of efforts to crackdown on Iranian citizens peacefully
demonstrating ... including voice calls, email, text messaging,
instant messages, and Web traffic, as well as posts to social
networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook."
