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Guidance counselor in need of one takes to Facebook and threatens to ‘shoot’ protesters

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A Pennsylvania high school guidance counselor has chosen one of the worst ways imaginable to demonstrate to her students the dangers of using social media while under the influence of anger.

MaryKate Blankenburg, an employee of Central Bucks High School West in Doylestown, Pa., was unhappy that people were planning to protest the recent legal decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., at the Philadelphia Eagles home football game on Sunday.

So she posted on Facebook: “If my child cannot get to the Eagles game due to protesters, I will personally SHOOT every one of them. You’ve been warned idiots!!”

Here is a screen capture, courtesy of a Philadelphia TV station:

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Hungary protesters throw computer parts at government buildings in fight against internet tax

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Three days after urging Prime Minister Viktor Orban to withdraw a proposed tax equal to roughly 60 U.S. cents for every gigabyte uploaded or downloaded in the country, more than 10,000 protesters returned to Budapest and set up similar demonstrations in several cities throughout the country.

The demonstrations began Sunday in response to Orban’s budget proposal for 2015, which included a tax imposed on Internet service providers (ISPs) reportedly based on an older, similar tax on telephone services. Though Orban and the conservative Fidesz political party said the tax money collected would help fund new broadband services in rural parts of the country, protesters argue that the ISPs will only pass the additional cost onto customers.

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Network World Colin Neagle

Punch to user privacy as Twitter surrenders Occupy protester’s tweets

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Facing the threat of criminal and civil contempt charges, Twitter surrendered the data requested by the government about Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris. Read more

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Republican National Convention Info Wars: Anonymous, Anarchists, Protesters & Police

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The 2012 Republican National Convention is being held in Tampa, Florida, with a slightly revised schedule due to the tropical storm. All of downtown Tampa is within the RNC security perimeter. There are about 90 high-definition cameras connected via a wireless network, according to Indybay. 31 surveillance cameras are fixed-point and about 63 surveillance cameras have pan/tilt/zoom capabilities that…
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