Jaclyn Preiser has a story on The Washington Post about
several persons in New Jersey charged for threatening (“cyber harassment”)
police officers after they retweeted a message from a protester that could have
doxxed a police officer thought to be making friends with enemies of Black
Lives Matter.
The defendants have GoFundMe pages (linked by the Post if you want to help them). It certainly sounds credible that the defendants thought they were transmitting legitimate news of possible police misconduct.
The Verge has a much more detailed story by Adi
Robertson. It is very unusual for people to get into trouble for blind retweets (except as part of organized activity).
The Post has another story (by Katie Shepherd) about activists who believe they should not post
on social media their own videos for fear that police will use it against other
protesters.
In Georgia (video embed above), a high school student was suspended for posting
a picture of a crowded school hallway without masks or social distancing on the
theory that the school forbids personal photos on school property from being
posted publicly. That sounds like my own
“conflict of interest” problem that I hav talked about before. The school has
reversed the suspension (NBC story).
Picture: NE Georgia Mountains, April 2018, my trip.
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