WikiLeaks row intensifies as US makes 'privacy' move against Twitter

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, praised the role of social networks such as Twitter in promoting freedom – at the same time as the US government was in court seeking to invade the privacy of Twitter users.

Lawyers for civil rights organisations appeared before a judge in Alexandria, Virginia, battling against a US government order to disclose the details of private Twitter accounts in the WikiLeaks row, including that of the Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, below.

The move against Twitter has turned into a constitutional clash over the protection of individual rights to privacy in the digital age.

Clinton, in a speech in Washington, cited the positive role that Twitter, Facebook and other social networks played in uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. In a stirring defence of the internet, she spoke of the "freedom to connect".



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/15/wikileaks-row-us-privacy-twitter

[msongs]

1. ok to use against foreign invasive governments but not our own. thanks hillary nt

[glinda]

2. She is a piece of work isn't she? What a joke.

[Autumn]

5. Yeah Obama should fire her

These government policies suck. A joke indeed but she isn't in charge of government policies. Oh well .

[Hissyspit]

3. What's her stand on Net Neutrality?

We already know her stand on freedom of information regarding WikiLeaks.

[Tribalceltic]

4. I knew this was coming EOM

[Autumn]

6. Yeah Obama should fire her

These government policies suck. A joke indeed but she isn't in charge of government policies, oh well.

[msanthrope]

7. Oh--wow!!! That's a confirm of a grand jury sitting in VA, investigating Manning

et. al....

[kpete]

8. Clinton Demands Net Freedom Abroad as Domestic Restrictions Loom

Source: Wired

Clinton Demands Net Freedom Abroad as Domestic Restrictions Loom

* By David Kravets
* February 15, 2011 |

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged governments abroad Tuesday to embrace internet freedom even as the United States moves to tighten online restrictions at home.

“History has shown us that repression often sows the seeds for revolution down the road,” Clinton said in reference to Egypt and Tunisia. ”Those who clamp down on internet freedom may be able to hold back the full impact of their people’s yearnings for a while, but not forever.”

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“I urge countries everywhere to join the United States in our bet that an open internet will lead to stronger, more prosperous countries,” she said at George Washington University.



Clinton’s speech came a day after the House voted to extend to December 8 three controversial domestic spy provisions of the Patriot Act. And Customs officials seized 18 more internet domains without giving the pirate website owners a chance to challenge the forfeiture.


Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/clinton-demands-net-freedom/

[ixion]

9. Exactly. Freedom's just a bunch of talk. Now onward with the march towards the Police State.

:grr:

[here_is_to_hope]

10. The sites they seized were

pretty cheesy, mostly fakes being sold...
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1102/110214washingtondc.htm


* 1DESIGNERSCARVES.COM
* CHANEL-NEWCOCO.COM
* CHANEL-WHOLESALE.COM
* COACH-HANDBAGSSTORE.COM
* CHOOSEMYHANDBAGS.COM
* ECREPLICA.COM
* FABAAA.COM
* ICOACHOUTLETSTORE.COM
* KRZA.COM
* ONSALETIFFANY.COM
* REPLICA-HANDBAGS-ONLINE.COM
* SHOPPING-LOUIS-VUITTON.COM
* STORE-AOL.COM
* TIFFANYJEWELLERY-US.NET
* TIFFANYSALE-US.COM
* TIFFANYSALE-US.NET
* TIFFANYSILVERSALE.COM
* USCOACHOUTLET.COM