In Turkey, in order to have an Internet-enabled phone, one must provide citizen ID. So, it's not that complicated to identify people after all...
My 2 cents, 2013/6/5 micah <mi...@riseup.net> > michael gurstein <gurst...@gmail.com> writes: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 > > > > > > > > Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had > > arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". > > > > > > > > An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali > Engin, > > told Anatolia they were being held for "calling on people to protest". > > > > > > > > Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Twitter was a > > "menace" being used to spread "lies". > > It is frightening to hear about arrests in turkey because of > twitter. How were they identified? > > More importantly, the announcement comes from the state-run news. One > should take any state-run news with a grain of salt. Perhaps this was > done to scare people away from using social media. If that is the real > truth, then the state-run media is the one spreading "misinformation", > which would be ironic which perhaps belies the truth. > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- "Change l'ordre du monde plutôt que tes désirs."
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