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Tweets won't be banned at the Royal Wedding
TWEETS WILL NOT BE BANNED at the Royal Wedding on Friday, contrary to a report on the Yahoo news website.
Yahoo has reported that police are installing signal-blocking technology at Westminster Abbey that will be in full operation by Friday morning, preventing people from tweeting about Prince William and Kate Middleton's walk up the aisle.
However, the Metropolitan Police's Central Operations team has confirmed to The INQUIRER, "There is no truth in the claim."
According to Yahoo's LA based sports correspondent, Martin Rogers, the move was made amidst fears that some of the 1,900 guests, which include celebrities and politicians, might send out Twitter updates about the proceedings.
"A police official confirmed to Yahoo! on Wednesday that the blocking technology will be in place from early Friday morning and will remain switched on for the entirety of the ceremony," said the Yahoo report.
However, a further call to telecoms regulator Ofcom confirmed what we expected anyway. Which was that setting up such a call jamming system would be illegal and would only be approved under some conditions, for example inside a prison.
Not at Westminster Abbey. µ
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Well of course Twits won't be banned - there would be no wedding party, no bride, no groom, and of course no cheering crowd.
Well, the ABC was banned from using live feed video for satirical commentary (by The Chasers) on its 2nd digital channel (with serious commentary on the first channel) - with the threat to cut off their live feed altogether. Other channels don't seem to have been banned from Dame Edna commentaries, or other informal comedic commentary. Hmm, sinister.
As the mexican wave the the networks failure to handle the volume of SMS's sent as the carriage pass's by one can only hope the royal couple to be are not seceptable to the barrage of radio traffic the unsheilded carriage endures.
Electronic ticker tape parades seems to be the new norm.
Also I realy dont evny the security services monitoring as this will realy test there technology.
Personaly I'd have a radio jammer jamming everything radio consumer level half a mile around the carriage, but that only tell's me i'm more paranoid about secuity than our security services. Which in itself is probably worrying at many levels.
Though with the Olympics comming and this event in part at the same scale on many levels, it will be anaylsts wet dream.
I just hope all those twits don't distract from what is after all a loving couple special day.