NEVER TOLERATE TYRANNY!....Conservative voices from the GRASSROOTS.

Does posting here at REAL CONSERVATIVES open the door for our government to prosecute us?

Has FREEDOM of SPEECH and the FIRST AMENDMENT been abolished by the Obama administration and the democrat machine???

Do we have a right to anonymity when we communicate via the internet?

Hundreds of years ago men spoke with hoods on to protect their identity, writers wrote under nom de plumes. They feared the government would throttle their freedom to speak. We are at a crossroad in history where the Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech of the individual is again threatened by the power of government.

Twitter appeals order to reveal protester's information

By Brendan Sasso - 08/27/12 04:35 PM ET THE HILL

Twitter filed an appeal with the New York State Supreme Court on Monday, looking to overturn a lower court's order to reveal the personal information of one of its users.

New York City prosecutors are demanding Twitter's data on Malcolm Harris, who was arrested for disorderly conductstanding to challenge the request on his own.

A lower court denied Twitter's motion in June and ordered the company to handover the information.

The judge, noting that Harris's tweets were public, wrote, "There can be no reasonable expectation of privacy in a tweet sent around the world."

He also argued that all third-parties have the burden of deciding if subpoenas are legitimate and that Twitter shouldn't receive a special exception.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a brief supporting Twitter's appeal.

“Under the First and Fourth Amendments, we have the right to speak freely on the Internet, safe in the knowledge that the government can’t get information about our speech without a warrant and without satisfying First Amendment scrutiny," Aden Fine, an ACLU attorney, wrote in a blog post. "We’re hopeful that Twitter’s appeal will overturn the criminal court’s dangerous decision, and reaffirm that we retain our constitutional rights to speech and privacy online, as well as offline.”

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office declined to comment.

We are in a technological expansion and revolution that, for the first time in the history of communication, is allowing citizens access to communication with literally billions of people instantly. The internet and computers and now cell phones and smart phones give anyone that capability.

Governments, the US included, are worried and are taking the wrong position on this increased ability to communicate. Governments should be welcoming more communication not less.

We the People want to know, we have a right to know, we MUST know . . . . otherwise our government will find a way to keep us in chains.