{"id":12097,"date":"2011-11-17T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12097"},"modified":"2012-07-11T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T14:27:21","slug":"updating-1984-to-2011-tweetcrime-replaces-thoughtcrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/17\/updating-1984-to-2011-tweetcrime-replaces-thoughtcrime\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating 1984 to 2011: tweetcrime replaces thoughtcrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.independent.co.uk\/2011\/11\/17\/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-of-the-edl-%E2%80%98clicktivists%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Hayes<\/a> in the <em>Independent<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Who\u2019s afraid of the English Defence League (EDL) clicktivists? Well the police for a start, who decided to undertake a mass pre-emptive arrest of 179 EDL supporters, while they were drinking in a Westminster pub on Armistice Day, for supposedly planning an \u2018attack\u2019 on Occupy London protesters at St Paul\u2019s. The police were tipped off by bloggers who had scoured the EDL\u2019s Facebook posts for threatening remarks, and were apparently also assisted in the arrests by some Occupy London supporters, with the administrator of an Occupy London Facebook page boasting he played a role.<\/p>\n<p>These arrests have rightly chilled civil liberties activists. As human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell tweeted at the time: \u2018Democracies don\u2019t arrest people who have committed no crime. EDL today, who next? Civil liberties are for all, even odious EDL.\u2019 Brendan O\u2019Neill has argued on <em>spiked<\/em>, \u2018it seems pretty clear that [EDL] supporters were arrested for committing a tweetcrime, the modern-day equivalent of Orwell\u2019s thoughtcrime, where you\u2019re nicked for what lurks inside your head rather than for anything you\u2019ve done in the real world.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Strikingly, this illiberal, anti-democratic crackdown on EDL protesters came less than a fortnight after the publication of the most extensive research into the EDL yet: one that reveals the EDL to largely be all tweets and no action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Hayes in the Independent: Who\u2019s afraid of the English Defence League (EDL) clicktivists? Well the police for a start, who decided to undertake a mass pre-emptive arrest of 179 EDL supporters, while they were drinking in a Westminster pub on Armistice Day, for supposedly planning an \u2018attack\u2019 on Occupy London protesters at St Paul\u2019s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10],"tags":[391,212,354,350,835,98,720,593],"class_list":["post-12097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-freedomofassembly","tag-georgeorwell","tag-london","tag-occupymovement","tag-police","tag-protest","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-397","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15965,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions\/15965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}