Well, That Was Quick: Twitter Dismisses Lawsuit After Feds Drop Attempt To Unmask Rogue Tweeter
from the quick-flip dept
Yesterday we wrote about Twitter suing the US government after officials at the Department of Homeland Security sought to use a law designed to gather information for figuring out import duties, to unmask the operator of @ALT_uscis, alleging to comment on immigration issues from within the US Citizenship and Immigration Service. Twitter broke out the big guns for that case, as the lead attorney representing it was Seth Waxman, a former Solicitor General in the Clinton administration.
Apparently, the US government realized that it was going to be fairly difficult to make much of a case here and agreed to drop the summons it had issued to Twitter, leading Twitter to dismiss the case:
On April 6, 2017, Twitter filed a Complaint in the above-captioned matter. On April 7, 2017, counsel for Defendants from the Department of Justice contacted counsel for Twitter, to advise that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has withdrawn the summons and that the summons no longer has any force or effect. Because the summons has now been withdrawn, Twitter voluntary dismisses without prejudice all claims against Defendants in the above captioned matter.
There have been some folks who have questioned Twitter's motives in filing this lawsuit, but that seems misguided. Twitter has a long history of going above and beyond most everyone else in the tech industry in fighting back in court attempts by government officials to get info on its users without proper due process.
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Thats good, however
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Can you cite a specific instance where Twitter has done this in the past?
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Hmmm, this is where you usually need to cite instances where this has happened instead of speculating on what you wish the real world looks like in order to justify actions by people you support. Are you unable to do that, you poor persecuted fool?
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Get the facts: has Twitter historically demonstrated a partisan bias? If not, stop making wild accusations.
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Going dark... and hidden
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Impossible to say, after all 'A Good, Patriotic Company Is A Compliant And Silent Company'.
/poe
(Though to be fair Twitter is a large company and can afford to fight back, whereas smaller companies might not have the luxury and would be faced with the options of caving in or going under trying to fight.)
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