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by Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!,"
a daily international TV/radio news hour.
Denis Moynihan contributed research to this column.
A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home -- all for using Twitter.
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