Guardian columnist and blogger Glenn Greenwald’s tweet links to what is essentially a straight news story summarizing the Department of Justice’s case against Matthew Keys. That’s a shame, because we’re curious why Keys, Reuters’ deputy social media editor, is lumped in with “online activists.” Unless there’s a lot more to the story, that designation seems to be overkill in itself.
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys Do you know why Mr. Keys wanted to do this? Did he think Trib was publishing untruths?
— JackMack (@jackthecat11) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys Less activist, more journalist with this indictment.
— DanKaps (@DanKaps) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys It's not prosecutorial overkill to indict people for destructive hacking, it is a crime. Professorial overkill.
— CAFitzpatrick (@catfitz) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys It's antithetical to human rights Glenn to claim that #Anonymous hacking is legitimate. It's not. Against FoE.
— CAFitzpatrick (@catfitz) March 14, 2013
@ggreenwald @TheMatthewKeys it seems he did it for petty revenge reasons & NOT activism, am I missing something?
— Ralph of Nazareth (@ParamedicX) March 15, 2013
Andy Carvin, senior strategist at NPR, was another journalist lamenting the news.
@TheMatthewKeys Hang in there. And know there are a lot of people who are there for you.
— Andy Carvin (@acarvin) March 15, 2013
https://twitter.com/LukeMorris/status/312367388534382592
@LukeMorris I believe in innocence until proven guilty.
— Andy Carvin (@acarvin) March 15, 2013
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