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		ugh on March 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Racist Twitter user jailed for 56 days It’s still public speech, though, and not in any way personal. I was responding to a comment that the government reading twitter and blogs is akin to reading emails which is total bullshit.

Locke1689 on March 27, 2012 [–]

True -- but what about mailing lists which can be publicly accessed? There's no "broadcast", but there's no protection either.

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