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Pleased to learn that a federal criminal grand jury's subpoena to Twitter to get my personal info was quashed by the judge, despite my association with sketchy accounts like @Popehat and @associatesmind, whom the court refused to do any favors.
(Thread ...)

 This started in 2017 with a Twitter thread about the interesting case of John Rivello, who was indicted for assault with "a deadly weapon, to-wit: a Tweet", where the tweet contained an allegedly seizure-inducing GIF and was sent to a known epileptic, @kurteichenwald.
Someone replied to the thread with a sarcastic dig at an FBI agent involved in the case (Nathan Hopp), and then someone else replied to that with a smiley-face emoji.
https://t.co/RcOphROvOP
https://t.co/X48C4ORZsI
Because that last, single-emoji reply was by someone the FBI was investigating (in a matter completely unrelated to Rivello), the feds reacted by demanding Twitter hand over all its information on everyone in the thread (for the suspicious act of being replied to by randos).
Twitter, through @PerkinsCoieLLP partner John K. Roche, admirably fought this subpoena on behalf of its users, three times: before a USMJ, then a USDJ, then the MJ again. The result was this sealed 35-page opinion (now unsealed):
https://t.co/HKlPBXe10E
The court rightly ruled that "Twitter has explained its clear interest in ferociously advocating for its users' First Amendment rights".
But the court only protected 2 of 3 anonymous speakers. @PogoWasRight had been in contact with @JShafer817 and blogging that his prosecution seemed to be vindictive, and these mere contacts were deemed sufficient to make her anonymity unworthy of 1A protection.
The weird bit is about the attempt to learn the identities of @popehat (unsecret alter ego of Ken White) and @associatesmind (whose screen name is Keith Lee with a blue check verifying that he is Keith Lee).
The feds farcically claimed Ken and Keith were not suspects, and the FBI were merely trying to get their contact information so they could ask for interviews. (They are both licensed attorneys whose up-to-date contact info is, by law, always publicly on file with their states.)
That's a pretty ridiculous excuse for demanding Twitter secretly hand over a list of all the IP addresses from which Ken or Keith had ever accessed Twitter, a list that would tend to provide a trail of where they had been at every moment they accessed Twitter from their phones.
But the judge said this is fine, and "the undersigned
cannot see how an IP address would reveal confidential communications". Sigh.
Anyway, in conclusion ...
Twitter's moderation/suspension decisions are often bad, but are not a 1st amendment issue. I appreciate that when the actual 1A shit hit the fan (i.e., actual gov't agents tried to expose our whole asses because a cop was insulted), Twitter threw down.
https://t.co/mEeZNZZRoN

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