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Montreal School Blames Racist Death Threats On Twitter
http://radioviceonline.com/ ^ | March 21,2011 | Steve McGough

Posted on 03/21/2011 4:32:47 PM PDT by Biggirl

So, we have a racist sneak into documentary screened by a conservative group at McGill University in Montreal. The racist is not exactly a fan of the film, and starts live-Tweeting his thoughts during the presentation. The Tweets include specific threats to the audience.

What kind of threats you ask? How about wishing he had brought a M-16 to shoot the other people in the room. I really don’t care what the documentary was, but here is a little background from thestar.com…

The student, Haaris Khan, was watching a documentary screened by the Conservative Party’s campus arm, Conservative McGill, when he appeared to become increasingly agitated and expressed himself on Twitter using his BlackBerry.

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: mcgill; racist; twitter
Twitter is 5-years-old today and now even death threats have gone twitter.
1 posted on 03/21/2011 4:32:50 PM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Well, what is the definition of a ‘twit’? QED!


2 posted on 03/21/2011 4:43:51 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Biggirl
Montreal School Blames Racist Death Threats On Twitter.

And I blame obscene phone calls on AT&T.

3 posted on 03/21/2011 4:47:15 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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