[...] Malcolm Harris will not be able to prevent prosecutors from demanding "any and all user information" tied to his Twitter account. Harris was one of about 700 demonstrators arrested in last fall's march over the Brooklyn Bridge, only to have his social media profile subpoenaed by the district attorney's office. As the Wall Street Journal reported last month, "prosecutors have turned one of the movement's principal organizing tools — social media such as Twitter — against the defendants."
Harris sought to fight the subpoena, the New York Times reported in February, arguing "that the request for 'any and all information' could be interpreted as asking for private messages between Mr. Harris and others, as well as a host of data collected by Twitter, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers used by Mr. Harris, Web pages he has visited and information about his physical location at different times." But a judge said today that the information is fair and relevant. "Twitter's license to use the defendant's Tweets means that the Tweets the defendant posted were not his," the decision said.according to the washington post last month, the assistant d.a. claimed malcolm harris' tweets would be helpful because they "made clear…that he was well aware of the police instructions that day, and acted with the intent of obstructing traffic on the bridge."
let's look back at that key day on the brooklyn bridge, as blogged.
police were clearly photographed by davids camera craft leading protesters on to the bridge, and as filmed by the motorist, prepared to pen them in, from the other end, i gather - in the ensuing hours that saw 700 patriotic americans arrested for standing up for the Constitution.
these youtubes, as well, show N.Y.P.D. in action - a whole contingent of officers leading thousands into the traffic lane - hardly the result of a tweet -
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