[Winstons Julia]

Amen.

“Not so to Brownback’s office. His team, which monitors comments on Facebook and Twitter containing the governor’s name, reported Sullivan’s tweet to Youth in Government, the program’s organizer.”

This is disturbing.

[treetopsandroofs]

Why? A Dem Gov would have sent the police to visit the “teen”.

[philman_36]

This is disturbing.
This has the specter of Mr. Dunham's "Fight The Smears" website.
The simple fact that there are government people actively monitoring what people say about their bosses on social media sites should cause us all some concern.

[netmilsmom]

It’s not disturbing when one understands how Twitter works.

From the article...
“The trouble for Sullivan began last Monday when she tweeted from a youth event at which Brownback gave a speech.

“Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot,” she tweeted.

Sullivan neither met Brownback in person, nor did she tell him he sucked. The tweet was spurred by a discussion she was having with a friend, talking about what they would tell Brownback if they were to meet him.

“The tweet was for her audience at the time,” said Olivia Sullivan, 19. “It was a complete joke between her and her friends.”

If she seriously thinks that her comment was for “her audience at the time” she should have skipped the hashtag. When one puts a hashtag on a comment, that goes to everyone who chose to follow that #. I do expect followers to follow and it’s public. Also, ANY Tweet is public if one wants to reference a name. It’s public, all public.

Now if this woman (and I mean woman, she is 18) doesn’t know this, I would suggest she get off Twitter. It’s dangerous for her.