The jury may still be out on flash mobs — harmless group dance? malicious gang warfare? refreshing summertime treat? — but Cleveland isn’t wasting any time setting up its defenses.
Before the city digs in with a hearty lineup of late-summer outdoor events, council has passed a new provision that takes the legal stick to anyone caught organizing destruction via their computers.
The newly christened crime is termed “Improper Use of Social Media,” which sounds like what our parents do every time they log in to remind us we need to do our laundry or bring that nice girl over for dinner.
This article appears in Jul 20-26, 2011.
Watching the ACLU go backward….