Meghan Keneally – Court Orders Twitter To Hand Over An Occupy Wall Street Protester’s Messages – 4 July 2012

(picture courtesy of Twitter : Challenging the law: Malcolm Harris is charged with disorderly conduct as he was one of 700 people who reportedly stormed the Brooklyn Bridge in October)

(Comment Lucas:  If your an American and are celebrating your Independance Day you should be protesting in stead as the courts become more and more not the protectors of the Constitution and your unalienable rights  but become instruments of the oppressor  in the name of the Corporate Police State of the USA.  This is again a case that is about your right on privacy and if it  is protected at all.)

A New York court is ordering Twitter to hand over a host of user Tweets as they wage into uncharted legal waters while dealing with the arrest of an Occupy Wall Street protester.

Malcolm Harris was one of the 700 protestors arrested in October after taking over much of the Brooklyn Bridge during the high point in the financial inequality protests.

District attorneys petitioned the judge of the case to order the social media company to hand over Mr Harris’ tweets for the days surrounding the arrest because they argue that the messages will show whether or not Mr Harris was willfully disregarding police orders at the time of his arrest.
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