Twitter Panic in Elbonia

peeterpaul@motskula.net (Peeter P. Mõtsküla) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Sten Tamkivi tweeted:

If this tax change happens, Estonia can say goodbye to any new international tech companies: http://bit.ly/2UVEC7 Outrageous!

This sparked a serial outrage of retweets and Facebook comments. Many people became heavily opinionated about an opinion leader’s opinion about a journalist’s opinion based on a [possibly, but not necessarily] out-of-context quotation of a tax lawyer. But few, if any, took the trouble to dig out the original source — the draft law containing the proposed changes to the income tax law.

Tax on @ppmotskula

Twitter Panic in Elbonia