Posted on 08/14/2014 9:53:37 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Twitter has suspended the @YourAnonMessage account that posted what it claims is a picture of the police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
After tweeting a series of threats to the St. Louis County Police Department this week, international hacker collective Anonymous used the @YourAnonMessage account to post personal information about the person it claims is the police officer who killed Brown.
"We don't comment on individual accounts, but you can see the reasons why an account may be suspended in our Twitter Rules," Jim Prosser, a Twitter spokesperson, told Business Insider.
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“We don’t comment on individual accounts, but you can see the reasons why an account may be suspended in our Twitter Rules,”
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Let me guess — inciting a lynch mob is a no-no.
“Private” citizens can expect their names, ages, pictures and other identifying information to be widely disseminated in news stories, while “public” employees are protected by vast swaths of privacy and even secrecy. The words have opposite meaning in any place in which war is peace, ignorance is strength, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.
You can get another twitter account in minutes. Tweet to your buds, and get the message out. You can have up to 10 accounts on one device. Can’t stop technology.
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