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>>GavCo+(OP)
Aside from people in tech and the MAGA crowd, does anyone actually care about the "Twitter Files" stuff?

>>mikece+23
Do people in tech care?

>>clipsy+i6
Those who care about government stifling speech do care.

>>jrjrnd+l7
Then you probably should re-read all of the text that led you to the conclusion that that was what was happening.

>>jacque+tL
Please, enlighten me. How is this anything but the Government doing an end run around 1A?

>>simple+PM
As long as you are given the option to decline a request (a real option, not a Hobson's choice), it doesn't cross the line into state action. The distinction in legal jurisprudence is pretty damn clear here, there needs to be some element of coercion by the government; if the government has the same power as private actors (e.g., to flag things), then that doesn't meet the bar.

>>jcranm+yP
The FBI would upon such a refusal then most likely go by a court to see if they could get a judge to sign off on an order and those you refuse at your peril.

>>jacque+GQ
So the harm to Twitter in refusing the original request is zero, right? There's no "stick" if the downside of refusing is just them asking a different way that you may have to actually listen to.

>>kadoba+dU
That depends on the request. If the request was made about something that they felt wasn't legal then they could refuse it, then the ball would be in the court of law enforcement to decide whether or not to escalate (go by a judge) or to drop the matter.

I'm pretty sure all of those have happened over the course of Twitter's life span, but obviously those do not make for sexy releases so I doubt we'll hear from them.