WTF!!!!! US wants Twitter details of Wikileaks activists

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12141530
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The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show.

The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details.

Those named include Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and an Icelandic MP.

The US is examining possible charges against Mr Assange over the leaking of 250,000 classified diplomatic cables.
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[HereSince1628]

1. And lower on these pages the Fed gov't wants everyone online ID'd

Hmmm. Just trying to make digital economics secure...right. As I remember a SS was not supposed to be anything more than an account number. That really held up to the test of time.

What's next? Digitally taken attendance at religious gatherings so that the gov't can decide your spirituality index? Oh, no, that's just a thing for the military...

[NightWatcher]

2. Next they'll come after everyone who's RT'd...

[stray cat]

3. Transparency for all?

[kgnu_fan]

4. Transparency for Power (governments, corporations), Privacy for People

[malaise]

5. Isn't it a complete inversion these days? n/t

[EFerrari]

6. So, Wikileaks turned around and demanded that Google and Facebook unseal

their subpoenas, too, betting that Twitter wasn't the only one the government served.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/08/wikileaks-calls-google-facebook-us-subpoenas?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[WinkyDink]

7. And Zuckenberg will gladly hand it over. As War Criminals go on book-tours.....

[malaise]

9. And as corporations pay more bribes to prevent the 'bribe' trial

of the war criminal of a Dick.
What a fugging world!

[Octafish]

8. So when will DU have to turn over its membership info?

And will the government go after freeplickersquare the same way?

That's a question for a professor of Constitutional Law! Right. Right. Right.

[obxhead]

10. I'm only shocked that they went through the courts. nt

[seabeyond]

11. transparency is a good thing.... they should volunteer, no? nt

[marmar]

12. How they hate it when they can't control the information. Damn Internets !!!!