Finally, a controvery about what people should and shouldn't tweet in Canada that doesn't involve elections Canada. On Christmas, Toronto Star writer (and sometimes OpenFile contributor) Corey Mintz tweeted the following:

This, of course, became an argument on the Internet. First CTV did a piece, and now the Globe and Mail has followed up with a front-page story this morning.

To risk being judgemental, the defense that tweeting RIDE locations is meant to help the sober drivers avoid traffic snarls is pretty laughable when some of these same tweets were accompanied by hashtags like "#avoidifhammered".

As it so happens, yesterday we also got this story (which I'd been following since David Topping pointed to it on Twitter):

Family of 11-year old boy who died over Christmas forgives alleged drunk driver

TORONTO – The family of an 11-year old boy who died over Christmas is forgiving the alleged drunk driver that hit the family van just days before Christmas.

Jeremy Craig Huber was in his family’s van on December 22nd, when they were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Wellesley.

Is it really controversial to say people doing dangerous, criminal things deserve to be caught? The penalties drunk drivers face are already weak. (One serial drunk driver got to keep his license through three convictions until he hit a family in their car, permanently disabling a father.) They don't need the internet's help.

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