Two People Face 30 Years Prison for Tweet Terrorism
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 05 September 2011, 20:00 IST   |    1 Comments
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Two People Face 30 Years Prison for Tweet Terrorism
Bangalore: Gilberto Martinez Vera, a private school teacher, and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola, a radio presenter, were charged using Twitter for spreading false reports that gunmen were attacking schools in the south-eastern city of Veracruz. The result of panic caused dozens of car crashes as the public left their car on the road and rushed to save their children from schools across the city. There was a jam in emergency telephone lines, which "totally collapsed" because public were terrified under the pressure. Gerardo Buganza, the interior secretary for Veracruz State, compared the ensuing confusion to Orson Welles's take-off news broadcast War of the Worlds in 1938. The two are facing charges under terrorism laws. Gilberto Martinez Vera, who works as a low-paid tutor at several private schools, allegedly opened the floodgates of fear with repeated messages that gunmen were taking children from schools. "My sister-in-law just called me all upset, they just kidnapped five children from the school," Martinez tweeted. Similar case had happened in United Kingdom, Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe Keenan were both sentenced four years in prison for inciting people to riot in the Manchester area setting up an event called Smash Down in Northwich Town on Facebook.

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