Yesterday a good friend (hey Erik!) emailed me this link:
Welcome To The United Police States of America, Sponsored By Twitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/welcome-to-the-united-police-states-of-america-sponsored-by-twitter-2011-12
I responded thusly figuring the matter was just a glitch:
Coincidence or government conspiracy? In this case I would have to go with conspiracy, though perhaps it is someone within Twitter management who is a right wing nut job rather than all the way to the government. It is clearly selective and just as clearly incapable of doing what it is reported to do, so I can’t help but think there is some Cheney somewhere in the Twiterverse.
However, today I read this:
Can the U.S. Government close social media accounts?
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/the_u_s_government_targets_twitter_terrorism/singleton/
Now the article Erik sent me sounds less like some right wing nut job working in the higher echelons of Twitter admin and more like the government readying a sweep of account closures.
This is how a police state operates. One little niggling step at a time, but a journey of a thousand miles happens one measly step at a time and we are well past the starting gate people!
BTW, note the following:
…the London Police characterized the Occupy movement as a “Terrorist” group alongside Al Qaeda and FARC.
Wanna bet the did so at the urging of US govt. officials?
The roundup is about to begin!
