OK who’s being the meanie on Twitter upsetting POTUS Donnie?
And there lies the problem; everyone, including POTUS Donnie, has a case of keyboard bravery, but there’s a line drawn as to how far that bravery can go but Big Bro don’t care – PB/TK
Twitter case shows breadth of U.S. power to probe anti-Trump statements By Alison Frankel and Dustin Volz April 8, 2017
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An attempt by U.S. authorities to identify an anonymous critic of President Donald Trump on Twitter has set off alarm bells among Democratic and Republican lawmakers and civil liberties advocates fearful of a crackdown on dissent.
Twitter Inc on Friday succeeded in beating back a demand for records about a Twitter account called ALT Immigration (@ALT_uscis), which pokes fun at Trump’s immigration policies and appears to be run by one or more federal employees.
The U.S. government withdrew an administrative summons that customs agents had sent the company in March demanding the records.
But the government backed away only after Twitter filed a federal lawsuit accusing it of violating the First Amendment’s protection of free speech. Customs agents could still continue the investigation using some other methods, civil liberties attorneys said.
Although authorities retreated, the case has laid bare the broad power of the U.S. government to demand information from technology companies, sometimes with no oversight from the courts and often with built-in secrecy provisions that prevent the public from knowing what the government is seeking.
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