Occupy Boston activist's Twitter info subpoenaed

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Source: CNN International (Leigh Remizowski)

A decision by Massachusetts prosecutors to subpoena the Twitter records of an Occupy Boston activist, as well as records linked to two Twitter hashtags, has free speech advocates up in arms, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment.

Suffolk County prosecutors demanded that Twitter hand over information posted on the social media website by user "Guido Fawkes," whose Twitter handle is @p0isAn0N, as well as information from the user behind @OccupyBoston and those who Tweeted #BostonPD or #d0xcak3, according to the document. <snip>

"There is a constitutional right to write things on the Internet," said Peter Krupp, an attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts who is representing the person using the Twitter handle Guido Fawkes. "There is a constitutional right to do that anonymously."

A Suffolk County Superior judge held a private hearing Thursday and impounded all documents pertaining to the case, according to Krupp, who said he could not divulge what happened during the session.


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/29/us/massachusetts-occupy-twitter/index.html?hpt=us_c2

[No Elephants]

1. A blue state. Governor, Deval Patrick, co-chair of Obama's 2008 national campaign.

AG, Martha Coakley, who ran unsuccessfully for Ted Kennedy's seat, losing to the Brown turd.

Mayor, Dem Thomas Menino, who confined the demonstrators to a tiny area and whose police beat up vets.

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