Bastion of Free Speech
The French-backed
regime headquarters for the revolution which overthrew its lawful and benign
government in the 18th century has decided to overturn its policy on free
speech.
White House staff have been blocked from using Twitter at work, press
secretary Robert Gibbs announced over the weekend. Gibbs admitted that he
would not Twitter if you paid him. As it is everyone in the world knows what
he is doing even if he didn't stick it on Twitter.
However even he was
surprised when hacks at a White House press conference asked him why White
House staff had been banned from using Twitter. He said he didn't really
know why the ban had been placed. However it made sense to stop staffers
revealing state secrets and wasting most of their tax-payer funded time was
not wasted chatting to people all over the world.
However after the
glorious revolution and a French naval blockade forced the British to give
up the colony, US spinners made much of the fact that people would be able
to say what they liked.