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This is unbelievable if true. Why has nobody thought of tweeting from prison before? It's genius. Is there anything the government can legally do to prevent thi

This is unbelievable if true. Why has nobody thought of tweeting from prison before? It's genius. Is there anything the government can legally do to prevent this from happening? Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated? If there were more prison twitter accounts it would do wonders towards expsosing how absurd our judicial / prison system is. More people should be live tweeting court cases / prison sentences. Could Adnan Syed have done companion tweets to the Serial podcast? This idea is so interesting.

anaphor 11y ago
Maybe because they get sent to solitary confinment for using social media? (At least in SC, I'm sure it's frowned on by prisons elsewhere) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolina-inmates-sent-solitary-confinement-over-facebook https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolin...
A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Weev did it: http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-auernheimer-prison-livetweeting/ http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-auernheimer-prison-... An apparently was punished for it: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/weev-in-solitary-confinement-for-remotely-tweeting-from-prison/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/weev-in-solitary-c...
nthitz 11y ago
http://www.betweenthebars.org http://www.betweenthebars.org hosts blogs for hundreds of inmates.
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Zuider 11y ago
>Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated? Only in a very restricted form because of the possibility that convicts could instigate or control criminal activity via such communication with the outside world. visitors, letters, and phone calls from prison are strictly rationed because of the resources required to monitor them. Even though mobile phones are strictly forbidden because they cannot be controlled, they are quite common in prisons.

anaphor 11y ago

Maybe because they get sent to solitary confinment for using social media? (At least in SC, I'm sure it's frowned on by prisons elsewhere) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolina-inmates-sent-solitary-confinement-over-facebook https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolin...

A_COMPUTER 11y ago

Weev did it: http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-auernheimer-prison-livetweeting/ http://www.dailydot.com/news/andrew-weev-auernheimer-prison-... An apparently was punished for it: http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/weev-in-solitary-confinement-for-remotely-tweeting-from-prison/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/weev-in-solitary-c...

nthitz 11y ago

http://www.betweenthebars.org http://www.betweenthebars.org hosts blogs for hundreds of inmates.

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Zuider 11y ago

>Do you have the right to freely distribute your thoughts while incarcerated? Only in a very restricted form because of the possibility that convicts could instigate or control criminal activity via such communication with the outside world. visitors, letters, and phone calls from prison are strictly rationed because of the resources required to monitor them. Even though mobile phones are strictly forbidden because they cannot be controlled, they are quite common in prisons.