Brussels lockdown twitter feed full of kitteh pictures to dilute sensitive information

[flamingdem]

People are drowning the feed with kittens because people kept tweeting the locations of the Belgium army operations. There are several ongoing at the moment.


https://twitter.com/hashtag/brusselslockdown

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[LiberalArkie]

1. And there are a lot of nice kittens there.

[flamingdem]

2. Very cute ones

Gives the people in Brussels something to do!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. As one poster put it

perhaps we will get all cat photos in one place now!

[LiberalArkie]

4. And imgur.com is now on a "Hair on Fire Alert" from the overload.

The kittens are not taking the situation laying down either.

[951-Riverside]

5. Great tactic. Hopefully the NYPD will look into deploying similar tactics to prevent...

people from tweeting out sensitive information about officer locations and tactics during anti-police protests and other large scale events. I know some police unions have started uploading bogus info to apps like Waze to throw the bad guys off.

Not only will this save lives but it will warm hearts in the process.

Bravo belgium army!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Then there is this pesky thing called the first ammendment

and by the way, SWAT operations MOST media behaves, and does not post any police movements or positions. During demonstrations we not only have a right, but a duty to cover the damn thing. Yes, that includes posting locations... Jesus there are days!

And what is happening in Brussels is a large scale SWAT operation essentially, so people will mostly behave if we have something like that in the United States. Citizens, on the other hand. no guarantees.

So tell me what other rights do you think we should surrender?

[Nevernose]

7. +1

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. It irks me when people conflate first ammendment protected speech

that be protests, and SWAT operations.