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Comments about the execution of a prisoner — "I just gave the go ahead"— by Utah's attorney general on Twitter were generating lots of comments by others on the microblogging site and in the world of social media.
"A Tweet too far?" said a headline on website Mashable. "A sign of the times, although many may find it distasteful, or much worse," said TechCrunch. And Twitter users were appalled by the remarks.
"Utah AG ... plumbs new depths" tweeted Liliana Segura of Brooklyn. "I'm against the death penalty. And (against) using Twitter to announce a Utah execution," tweeted
Insensitive? Yes, maybe. But then again so were the actions of this murdering oxygen thief. Pardon me if i don't shed a tear.
We will all have to get used to this kind of thing both now and in the future.
Originally posted by AndrewTB
Yall vie for transparency, yet when you have it, the morality questions begin to fly. I have no problem with someone tweeting information that's public to begin with.
hank goodness for technologies like Twitter, huh?
I personally have been a holdout, thinking the whole thing rather self centered to tweet your every twitish thought, but I have been reconsidering of late.
Originally posted by AndrewTB
Yall vie for transparency, yet when you have it, the morality questions begin to fly. I have no problem with someone tweeting information that's public to begin with.
Originally posted by Good Romance
The ironic, sad thing is we still execute people in an era where we have Twitter.