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UK Seeing Average Of 3 Social Media-Based Arrests Per Day

Lauren Dugan — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:00:59 +0000

If you’ve ever had a fight on Twitter (which we recommend you never, ever do), you know how tempting it can be to throw your hands up from your keyboard and take things offline. Maybe not in a “let’s take this outside”-type way, but more of a “I’m telling!”-type way.

Police in the UK are dealing with a whole country full of social media tattletales, it seems, and have been making, on average, three arrests per day based on complaints about social media abuse.
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Journalists Get Arrested During Occupy Wall Street, Tweet About It, Then Get Scolded By The AP

Lauren Dugan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:05:58 +0000

Just two weeks after laying down the law when it comes to retweets, the Associated Press is cracking down on reporters for turning to Twitter to… well, tweet about their own arrests at Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan.
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Kuwaiti Man Sued, Detained For Comments Made Against Bahrain Royal

Lauren Dugan — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:30:37 +0000

Kuwaiti citizen Nasser Abdul (pictured in blue in this image from his Twitter profile) was detained last week for comments that he made on Twitter allegedly criticizing the ruling families of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
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