@m4ngo5 I think it depends on who runs the instance and what their access to legal support is. If they're not in the US, they have a legal advantage

@micahflee Good point. If the instance is small, it might be difficult finding or getting access to the person to serve.

Any idea how the ACLU gets involved defending an anonymous person's rights? Who do they represent, Twitter or the user? Do they... meet the user? Lol. So many questions.

@m4ngo5 in this case, ACLU is representing Twitter. It looks like the investigation going into deanonymizing this specific account started with a data request to Twitter, and Twitter is fighting the request.

Thinking about this, it would be pretty awesome if Mastodon defaulted to not logging IP addresses of users

@micahflee Ok, it makes sense that ACLU is representing Twitter.

I think that IP logging is instance specific behavior, but I've not read up on the technical details much. I found some info on it in the ToS.
https://mastodon.social/terms

@micahflee Hey, that's interesting. My toot inherited your 'hide text' preference from your post that I was respondng to. Interesting. Clever. But I can turn it off. (I will for this post.)