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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc
I disagree with the issue on the tweet. Twitter is a medium to get your message out. When you tweet something (especially with a hash tag), you are sending it out to the masses. You can't be surprised when it goes viral. That is why it is so incredibly important to think before you tweet because it can never be taken back.
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I don't think you can possibly be expected to predict what other people do with your message before you send it. If the spark that had created this incident, for example, was a relatively innocuous tweet reading "Our favourite lion Cecil killed by poachers - we'll miss you buddy", and the internet seized on that to find the culprit and destroy his life, how are you going to punish the original tweeter? Sometimes these things have a life of their own.
I'm not saying this isn't possible to legislate; I've pretty clearly taken the opposite view. But it will take some creativity.