Major news outlets are reporting that police are frustrated by the use of Twitter to warn potentially drunk drivers of road blocks. Police fear that this free dissemination of information may help drinking drivers escape arrest. This begs the question shouldn't police want people to know about road blocks so they will take a cab or is DUI enforcement simple another means of selective revenue generation. Studies have concluded that talking on cell phones with an ear piece and without an ear piece, texting while driving, and driving over the age of 70 are dramatically more dangerous than driving at 0.08. If public safety is really the concern why not make those actions illegal as well. A society that fears the free flow of information does not sound like a democracy.
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Major news outlets are reporting that police are frustrated by the use of Twitter to warn potentially drunk drivers of road blocks. Police fear that this free dissemination of information may help drinking drivers escape arrest. This begs the question shouldn't police want people to know about road blocks so they will take a cab or is DUI enforcement simple another means of selective revenue generation. Studies have concluded that talking on cell phones with an ear piece and without an ear piece, texting while driving, and driving over the age of 70 are dramatically more dangerous than driving at 0.08. If public safety is really the concern why not make those actions illegal as well. A society that fears the free flow of information does not sound like a democracy.
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