Rop Gonggrijp: US won’t get much from my tweets
The United States justice authorities are demanding the Twitter account details of people suspected of having links to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Dutch internet activist Rop Gonggrijp is on the list but, on his blog, he says the US won’t learn much from the information.
“I don’t use Twitter much and I’ve never received or sent a Direct Message via Twitter. What Twitter’s got on me isn’t very spectacular.” His account only has 84 public tweets.
Rop Gonggrijp is well known as a hacker and internet activist in the Netherlands and abroad. The US authorities have issued a court order for information including his tweets, Direct Messages, his IP numbers and credit card details. Mr Gonggrijp made an announcement on his blog about the court order this weekend soon after being informed of it by Twitter’s lawyers.
