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Submission + - Men arrested for 'anti-Semitic' comments on Twitter, after football game (reuters.com) 2

Submitted by magic maverick on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:54AM

magic maverick writes: Reuters reports that three men were arrested for posting anti-Semitic comments on Twitter following the English Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United in October, police said on Friday.
Two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested on Thursday in London and in Wiltshire, while a 48-year-old man was arrested at his home in Canning Town in London last week on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. The investigation following the match on October 6 was triggered by complaints about tweets that referred to Hitler and the gas chambers.

I guess it goes to show, you'd be stupid to use your real name, or identifying details on Twitter. Perhaps the British should also work on reforming their laws on free speech (or lack there of).

Submission + - $1.2 million payout for photographer (abc.net.au) 2

Submitted by magic maverick on Sunday November 24, 2013 @05:09AM

magic maverick writes: A US federal jury has ordered Agence France-Presse and Getty Images to pay $1.2 million to a Daniel Morel, Haitian photographer, for their unauthorized use of photographs, from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The images, posted to Twitter, were taken by an editor at AFP and then provided to Getty. A number of other organizations had already settled out of court with the photographer.

Submission + - The Atlantic's Scientology Advertorial (poynter.org)

Submitted by magic maverick on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @11:40AM

magic maverick writes: The Atlantic recently ran an "advertorial" for the 'Church of Scientology'. During this time, they filtered comments and removed negative comments.
While they since apologized, incisive.nu has an interesting run down of what they did wrong, from both a moral and business perspective.

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