After being served the warrant, however, the company took several days to respond. Twitter then filed a motion to vacate the nondisclosure order on February 2, arguing the order violated the First Amendment, and refused to comply. The company demanded that U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, who was overseeing the case at the time, block enforcement of the search warrant until the matter was resolved.
Instead, Howell found Twitter in contempt and fined the platform $50,000 a day, doubling for each day of noncompliance. Twitter still did not comply with the warrant until February 9, resulting in a total of $350,000 in fines.
Twitter appealed the ruling, but in July, an appeals court upheld Howell’s decision, the documents released Wednesday show.
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Fascists gonna fascist.
InB4 “the search warrant says ‘twitte’r, this is ‘x’”
I despise Elon but I’m also pretty sure the original owners of Twitter would have dragged their heels too.
maybe, maybe not. They probably would have filed the appeal sooner. As it is, these requests- including the NDA are pretty standard requests, even if the subject is donald trump.
that said, though, I’m going to amuse myself imagining that jack Smith got the warrant and then logged on to trump’s account using ‘MAGA2020’ for the password.
why? is there any evidence of them having done that in the past?
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Tech companies have fought against gag orders many times before and been supported online for doing so. Strange to see a different reaction now just because this case involves unpopular people.
unpopular is an understatement. one is a criminal and should be in jail. the other is an exploiter of human rights. i’ll leave it up to you to decide which description fits who…
The American Deep State qualifies as both.
is the Deep State™ in the room with you right now?
Are you ok? Do you need help?
Provide evidence of this “American Deep State” or go take your meds.
Trump and friends trying to steal an election is the evidence of the nazi “deep state”
You can’t steal a stolen election.
Go home, Russian propaganda.
They write op-eds for the New York Times. Evidence enough for you?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/opinion/sunday/trump-civil-service-deep-state.html
Previous concerns about search warrants with gag orders attached were in the context of the FISA courts, where the warrant was served as “We are serving you this search warrant, which you must comply with, and you can’t inform anyone that such a warrant even exists, ever, including your lawyers. We’re not going to tell you why this warrant has been issued, we’re not going to tell you who the target of our search is, we’re not really even going to tell you exactly what data we want. We just kind of want all of it, hand it over. There is zero recourse for you, comply or suffer consequences.” The problem with those kinds of warrants is because there’s this secret FISA court, which is essentially a rubber stamp for overzealous secret data collection which could be used against anyone. It’s a real privacy concern.
This is not a FISA warrant. This is a regular old criminal investigation warrant. These kinds of search warrants always have a gag order, to prevent the target of the investigation from finding out there’s an investigation going on. But the warrant itself will identify that target, will identify specific data, the company can involve their lawyers, they can talk to the court about it. This is all completely normal.
Tech companies have fought against gag orders many times before and been supported online for doing so.
do you have any sources/evidence that show twitter doing this?
2011: https://techland.time.com/2011/01/14/twitter-wikileaks-and-the-broken-market-for-consumer-privacy/
Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have also done this, but I can’t recall if Apple has done so.
Resisting oppression by the Deep State is the civic duty of every patriotic citizen.
Go home, Russian propaganda.
I’m talking about the American Deep State and American citizens. You are very confused.
Go home, Russian propaganda.
You’re also confused.
Zero people are confused about you, Russian propaganda.
Repeating a debunked statement is just desperation. You’re desperate.
Russian propaganda couldn’t debunk a single mattress bunkbed, so go away
There has been no “debunking,” Russian propaganda.
Go home confused Russian propagandist. No one here is falling for your shit. Go back to Reddit.
Repeating a debunked statement is just desperation. You’re desperate.
The, uh, courts are just part of the, uh, regular state.
Have you considered taking a civics class somewhere other than Prager U?
Have you considered learning what the Deep State means before running your mouth off about it?
Yes it is the duty of Americans to resist nazis like trump
The Nazis are in the Azov Battalion, and it’s Biden, not Trump, who’s sending billions to them. This makes Biden the Nazi.
Go home, Russian propaganda.
I thought the “deep state” was only conjured when a Republican is President and they need a boogeyman to explain their failures. Wouldn’t scary libruls in the government right now just be… the state?
The Deep State doesn’t need to be conjured. It objectively exists. Regime mouthpieces like the New York Times run op-eds defending it.
Who exactly is the “deep state” anyway? It changes by the hour.