Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?
I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit
@sarahjeong "By suing, and by revealing the summons to the world, Twitter lawyered up quickly." is a weird sentence. did something get chopped up in the editing process?
@Kit_ you are correct that was an error
@sarahjeong you are such a valuable person hahaha
@sarahjeong Keep posting on Mastodon, it is the Secret Garden and Twitter is the island from Lord of the Flies.
@sarahjeong What's /really/ interesting here, I think, is how Congress is reacting. Several representatives, both Dem /and/ Rep, have demanded that DHS explain wtf it was doing and why it thought that was even remotely constitutional.
@nsqe I think you're right, and I want to follow up on that
@sarahjeong It's like it's endemic of a larger issue: like DHS has assumed a much larger scope of authority in the last few months than it's ever had (for some unknown reason...), and it's just charging ahead. You see it in this court action, you see it in ICE grabbing people outside churches, you see it in the demands for social media passwords at borders.
@sarahjeong sarah i hope vice are paying you well for this
@sarahjeong and if they're not that danny's figuring out a way for you to be eff's content director or someone else is doing something similar because 💯 what you're doing
@sarahjeong Given that no Mastodon instance operator will have the funds to mount an effective defence against a nation state, do you think the EFF would be the most likely good samaritan??
Asking for a friend. 😉
@sarahjeong Just saying thanks for your reporting. Thanks!
@sarahjeong Technically speaking, on Mastodon they could get a domain name from GANDI, who would probably not cooperate with the US and could seize the Justice Court of the European Union, and then self-host on Mastodon. (Of course they won't find the same audience here, that's not the point)