There's no amusement in yelling "fire!" in a theatre unless you enjoy watching people panic. I can imagine this striking him as "haha, wouldn't it be funny if.

There's no amusement in yelling "fire!" in a theatre unless you enjoy watching people panic. I can imagine this striking him as "haha, wouldn't it be funny if..." and tweeting it out without thinking. I don't think that makes it okay, but it's easy to imagine it not being motivated by the same psychopathic intention as yelling "fire!" in a theatre. I'm not defending his behaviour; I guess part of my unease here comes from how a lot of people treat twitter as an externalized stream of consciousness, and how that has a strange interaction, especially with things like SEC rules.