socialmedian: Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS

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Russian Law Enforcement Agency Gets into Trouble over Violation of Social Network ToS

Source: Profy.Com

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

The tech blogosphere tends to be very happy when we see new signs of how various governmental authorities go social and adopt various social tools like Twitter or Facebook. Of course it is obvious that we want every single government regulator to be on Twitter and for citizens to be able to get some services they need by posting an @reply or a direct message - instead of visiting some office and standing in some line.

But the problem with our enthusiastic reports is that in the vast majority of situations the authorities (or their employees) have no idea about proper behavior online, netiquette or any guidelines they should follow not to do anything that will hurt instead of helping them provide better service. And some of the examples of their online activities are definitely more than simply clumsy.

The latest example was widely covered on Russian TV recently and the entire situation is pretty much hilarious. The story is about the Russian Bailiff Service. They have never had too much free time on their hands given that so many ex-husbands were trying to avoi

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