Person Tweeting Death Wish For Palin Now Wants Privacy
I linked earlier to a YouTube video montage [video removed, see update below] of death wishes tweeted about Sarah Palin after various bloggers maliciously linked Palin’s electoral target map to the Tucson shooting.
Now YouTube is threatening to pull the video because one of the people who sent a tweet has complained that the video violates her privacy.
According to the YouTube notice, which appears at Big Journalism (h/t Aaron Worthing at Patterico), the person whose tweet appears at 1:50 of the video is the person who complained. Here is the screen shot at 1:50:
I have no idea what YouTube will do, but it does seem odd that someone would sent a death wish into the Twitter universe and then claim privacy.
There are two principles at issue. First, there is no expectation of privacy as to death wishes. Second, there is no expectation of privacy on Twitter.
Sorry lady, you’ll have to live with the consequences of your Tweet, because even if YouTube takes down the video, we all have screen shots.
Which brings me to a third principle. You can’t take it back on the internet.
Update: YouTube removed the video. All of the screenshots have been saved by a reader, and are available here and also at Patterico. A new location for the video will be linked once available.
Here is the video:
Palin Death Wish Tweets Re Tucson Shooting from Legal Insurrection on Vimeo.
Update 1-13-2011: Per Aaron Worthing, two of the persons (including Moriah Jovan) who sent tweets in the video assert that the tweets are not what they seem, and that they were mocking the death wishes, not making them.
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Someone back in the days before electricity said words to the effect of "Never send a letter, never destroy one you receive".
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Again, yes I am one of the twitter people. But should that really matter Mr. Jacobson?
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It matters a great deal when the author of death threats suggests that someone else is stupid or insufficiently civil.
It confirms they have no credibility.
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Hoist on something Adam?
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yeaaa, only problem is that my twitter post was not a death threat. I do not wish for death on anyone really. I just wish Palin would go away. Stop stirring the pot and causing all of this idiotic trouble. She does nothing but cause trouble and fuel a fire that needs to be put out or put to better use. Like rebuilding this country.
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@Mike H. what?
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> You people still have not responded to the MAIN argument that Palin is in prime time public view practically 24/7.
Actually, we have. We're still waiting for Adam to identify other folks/organizations who are not "nobody" so we can see if her use of target imagery is as unique as his argument requires.
Surely the DNC and DSCC and major state parties are also not "nobody".
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I can say after looking at images that the Democrats seemed to use actual tagets such as the one used for the store Target. Palin, however, used the crosshairs of a gun as her target. In my eyes, though the difference seems small, it is still a pretty stark difference. Again, I am not saying she CAUSED the shooting. I am just saying her particular graphic was not a good one. It could have consequences in the future. We have to realize on BOTH sides that unstable people are out there and we have to be careful in what we say and how we say it. On another post I have already apologized for what I said, but I have also said that I am not sarah palin. I dont have people waiting on the edge of their seat for my next words. I dont have nearly 400,000 people following me on twitter and over 5 times that on facebook.
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> I can say after looking at images that the Democrats seemed to use actual tagets such as the one used for the store Target.
Look harder.
There's also the Joe Manchin ad where he fires a real gun and says that he's "shooting cap and trade". Kerry also fired a gun in a campaign appearance.
> It could have consequences in the future.
Anything could have consequences in the future, including the tweet storm that Adam participated in.
> We have to realize on BOTH sides that unstable people are out there and we have to be careful in what we say and how we say it.
I wonder how Adam reacted when Bush's press secretary (Ari Fleisher) said basically the same thing after 9/11.
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Actually Adam, what Palin used on her map may be properly characterized as surveyor's marks. I've done surveying and target shooting so I know the difference. http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2011/01/surveyor-symbol.html
Perhaps you should research your facts a little before you "shoot off" your keyboard, eh? Oops, can't say that can I…vitriolic rhetoric and all that.
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So much for her privacy.
FoxNews has picked up the story:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/13/palin-targeted-tweets-following-arizona-shooting-massacre/
And they link to another YouTube copy of the video (a remix, with John Lennon music) and the tweet from redheadonfire2 is still there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s4YfBKs39Y
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame, little girl.
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>I just wish Palin would go away.
Will no one rid me of this troublesome woman?
'zat what you're saying, Adam? Sounds like a death threat to me.
>Stop stirring the pot and causing all of this idiotic trouble. She does nothing but cause trouble
Yeah, she had the temerity to object to being charged with causing the murder of 6 people, including a 9-year-old and the shooting of others. Being a Republican and (most importantly for the Lords of Tolerance on the left) a woman, she needs to shut up.
Course, if she'd not said anything, the Lords of Tolerance would have said that this proves her guilt.
Basically, what Adam is saying is that Sarah Palin needs to do whatever is best for the political fortunes of the left. That's all that matters to guys like him. That's what makes a "tolerable" Republican.
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Snowflake is a footsoldier is the Obamist army: semi-literate, ignorant, unimportant, and ignored. This is why 2010 was so devastating to the Democrats, and why 2012 will be even more so.
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Ms. Bendik writes poetry:
http://www.helium.com/items/500238-poetry-dreams
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and yet here she is holding a gun!
http://twitpic.com/1z70ze
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Her tweets are blocked, but her twitpix aren't:
http://twitpic.com/photos/redheadonfire2
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Say, is this Snowflake, or another Petulant Leftie with the same name and mental deficiency?
http://climateofhate.blogspot.com/2011/01/violent-rhetoric-in-america-part-iv.html#links
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