Monday 5 October 2009

Ah, But That's Different


The Guardian, June 2009

The Obama administration, while insisting it is not meddling in Iran, yesterday confirmed it had asked Twitter to remain open to help anti-government protesters.

The Guardian, October 2009

A New York-based anarchist has been arrested by the FBI and charged with hindering prosecution after he allegedly used the social networking site Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh evade the police.



6 comments:

SaltedSlug said...

One rule for the yanks and a different rule for everyone else? Surely not....

JuliaM said...

What do they do to politicians to make them gutless, two-faced hypocrites? Is it some kind of subliminal signal during the oathtaking?

Or is it just that only gutless, two-faced hypocrites are interested in going into politics in the first place?

Mark Wadsworth said...

Well spotted. How did you spot it?

banned said...

Perhaps Venuatu or some other soon-to-be-sunk-beneath-the-waves statelet could ask Twitter to remain open to help the G20 protesters 'increase awareness' of manmadeclimatechange.

Angry Exile said...

It's not fascism when the righteous do it. Simples.

Dick Puddlecote said...

MW: A headline in the WSJ relating to the US Twitter arrest popped up on RSS and it rang a bell. Googling for the older report, those two Guardian articles were returned.

Nice link, AE, I must ask if I can nick that pic sometime. :-)