SouthFresh » Nerd http://www.southfresh.org The Gospel According to Seth Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:41:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New Dimension to #TwitterJokeTrial http://www.southfresh.org/nerd/new-dimension-to-twitterjoketrial http://www.southfresh.org/nerd/new-dimension-to-twitterjoketrial#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:12:49 +0000 Seth http://www.southfresh.org/nerd/new-dimension-to-twitterjoketrial Paul Chambers is guilty of doing something insanely stupid, threatening to blow up an airport.  I thought everyone knew that you don’t joke about blowing shit up.  That’s not the interesting part, what’s interesting is that now a bunch of people have retweeting the original tweet.  It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.  One could expect the retweeters to be treated the same, or maybe they will be granted clemency based on it having been a “retweet”

A journalist doesn’t get jail time for saying that someone threatened to blow up a building, and retweets are, to most, obviously retweets.  From the Giz

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towel.blinkenlights.nl

Enjoy the show.

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