Twitter Anarchist

After reviewing the case of the Twitter Anarchist, i have several concerns. First and foremost, this guy has way too much time on his hands if he is sitting by his police blotter all night and tweeting what he hears. Second, if he was trying to pull one over on law enforcement, why did he choose a public social network site like Twitter? I think that if police are going to arrest him for listening in on a police blotter, why not just make police blotters illegal all together? On a more philosophical note, I think the guy was following a traditional natural law approach because he was performing his moral duty to his cause that he believes is right. It was his moral responsibility to inform his fellow anarchists of any upcoming trouble. However, he was arrested based on questionable police work. In a realist perspective, what law was he breaking? Do the police think that just because they arrested him that its going to deter others from doing the same thing. This reminds of when Napster first came out and there were reports that some people were hunted down by the FBI and arrested. I don't think this had any effect on the illegal downloading of music because it was unrealistic. The government had to put a ban on Napster itself after they figured out that it was impossible to arrest every person downloading music illegally. So they will have to shut down Twitter if they want to stop this problem. However, if they shut down Twitter, another social networking site will be up hours, if not minutes, after.