<story><title>Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison</title><url>https://twitter.com/xychelsea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>clamprecht</author><text>When I was doing my time in the Fed (1995-2000), my friends &amp;amp; mom had set up a web page for me.[1]  Sometime around &amp;#x27;96 or &amp;#x27;97, the prison Captain (responsible for security) found out and had me fired from my &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; job.  (Good job meant I was working at the Unicor factory, where I could have eventually made $200&amp;#x2F;month).  I was transferred to be an &amp;quot;orderly&amp;quot; (which means janitor), earning $5&amp;#x2F;month at the Captain&amp;#x27;s office, so he could keep an eye on me.&lt;p&gt;Eventually I found out the reason he had me fired was because the prison officials didn&amp;#x27;t like the attention that my web page brought, and they also though I was somehow accessing the Internet from the Unicor factory (they had terminals there, which I wasn&amp;#x27;t allowed to be near).  My case started getting attention, media interviews, etc.  At one point, I was told directly by the prison staff attorney to stop all the attention.  I scaled it back enough to where they stopped harassing me.  It&amp;#x27;s definitely a tradeoff - the more attention you get, the more they will fuck with you in there.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19990222022940&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.paranoia.com&amp;#x2F;~mthreat&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19990222022940&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.parano...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison</title><url>https://twitter.com/xychelsea</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rtkwe</author><text>&amp;gt; Also for those of you asking: @fitzgibbonmedia is handling my account for the time being&lt;p&gt;So it sounds like Manning doesn&amp;#x27;t have Twitter access but instead is probably giving whatever tweets she wants to send out to the Fitz Gibbon Media. Not much different from the old statements and letters from prison other than where it ends up.&lt;p&gt;PS: For anyone else who was confused like me since it&amp;#x27;s been a while: Chelsea Manning == Bradley Manning.</text></comment>