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Supreme Court Bans Man From Twitter

Posted by Rob Lewis on Tue, November 18, 2008 9:58 AM · Filed under Toronto, Vancouver , Social Media · Comments

The Daily Seagull, Vancouver's equivalent of The Onion, reported today that the Supreme Court has finalized stepped in to take down one of Toronto's Twitterati.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in favor of sentencing a man to a lifetime ban from using the online micro-blogging application Twitter.

Simon Brighton, a 37 year old Toronto resident, was given the lifetime ban after being charged with reckless and unnecessary overuse of the program causing reader apathy.

The entire article is worth a read. The Daily Seagull (@DailySeagull) is an online source for news and views from a collection of "mentally-suspect" writers including Kevin Brockman and Matthew Mcgarnickle.

 
Company:
Twitter
Website:
http://www.twitter.com
Location:
San Francisco, California, United States

Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006,... [more]

 

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