{"id":5145,"date":"2011-01-08T21:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T05:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2011-01-08T21:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T05:05:52","slug":"us-government-subpoenas-twitter-over-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/01\/08\/us-government-subpoenas-twitter-over-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget CES 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/igeneration\/us-subpoenas-wikileaks-tweets-and-why-this-could-affect-you\/7610\" target=\"_blank\">US Government subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, US Government is asking Twitter for the identities and all available informations on Wikileaks followers. Sounds scary isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>From ZDNet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter is in a difficult position. Considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2009\/06\/17\/DI2009061702232.html\" target=\"_blank\">their stance during the Iranian elections<\/a> supporting the freedom of speech, it will appear as if the company is backtracking or giving into pressure by handing over details of its users to its government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hypothetical questions regardless of what had happened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iranian Government demands identities of those who supports and\/or are involved with the protest.<br \/>\nTwitter stands takes a stand and says &#8220;NO!&#8221; to Iranian Government.<br \/>\nWhere do US Government stand?<\/li>\n<li>Iranian Government demands identities of those who supports and\/or are involved with the protest.<br \/>\nTwitter caves in and says gives to Iranian Government the informations.<br \/>\nWhere do US Government stand?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2009\/06\/17\/DI2009061702232.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> (June 17, 2009):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/16\/AR2009061603391.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">asked social-networking site Twitter<\/a> to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday&#8217;s reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another question:<br \/>\nCan you have the cake and it it too?<\/p>\n<p>As of this posting there are <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/wikileaks\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">634,942<\/a> Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-08 21:05 Pacific Time)<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:<br \/>\nNow there are <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/wikileaks\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">634,676<\/a> Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-08 23:40 Pacific Time)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Twitter Wikileaks 2011-01-08 at 11.40.46 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Twitter-Wikileaks-2011-01-08-at-11.40.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/wikileaks\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">634,684<\/a> Wikileaks followers on Twitter. (2011-01-09 4:54 Pacific Time)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Twitter Wikileaks 2011-01-09 at 4.54.31 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Twitter-Wikileaks-2011-01-09-at-4.54.31-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"118\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Should US Government subpoena blogging services such as WordPress for the accounts that ever mention Wikileaks in their Blog-post?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget CES 2011, US Government subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks. According to reports, US Government is asking Twitter for the identities and all available informations on Wikileaks followers. Sounds scary isn&#8217;t it? From ZDNet: Twitter is in a difficult position. Considering their stance during the Iranian elections supporting the freedom of speech, it will appear as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/01\/08\/us-government-subpoenas-twitter-over-wikileaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Government subpoenas Twitter over Wikileaks.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[2009,2511,936,3055,3210,3247],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-media","tag-resources","tag-tech","tag-twitter","tag-wikileaks","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1kZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}