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Twitter sues the US Department of Homeland Security for trying to break the first amendment

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Ricky 06 April 2017

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If you don’t know what’s going on between Twitter and the United States Government right now, grab some popcorn and take a seat. We’ll try to make it as simple as possible, as there is quite a bit of meat on this bone.

Twitter is suing the United States Department of Homeland Security for demanding that Twitter unmask the anonymity of Twitter account @ALT_USCIS (Alternative US Citizenship and Immigration Services), which voices its direct opposition of the Trump Administration, its values (and its logic). The government tried to use a “limited purpose investigatory tool” that can circumvent the protection of free speech for very specific cases.

The Trump Administration was unable to give a good enough (or valid) reason to justify why the anonymity of the Twitter account was not protected by the first amendment. It tried to play an UNO card at the Poker table by citing a statute (the one that tried to go around the first amendment) that had nothing to do with the circumstance of the anonymous Twitter account.

The account was created back when Trump was first inaugurated as the 45th president of the US. During this time, the administration seized control of official Twitter accounts for various US departments. @ALT_USCIS is (supposedly) managed by one or more current US government employees and if the identity/identities were revealed, it will likely cost these folks their jobs.

pic.twitter.com/jMyK38iOcN

— ALT🛂 Immigration (@ALT_uscis) April 6, 2017

As a response to Twitter’s lawsuit, @ALT_USCIS has pinned a tweet of the first amendment onto its profile.

The 25 page filing outlines the background and motivation behind the @ALT_USCIS account and cites a number of tweets, solidifying that the account (and its users) in question, is doing nothing more than exercising its right to free speech. Check out the filing here, (and make sure you get a refill on that popcorn if you do).

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  • Anonymous
  • LC8
  • 11 Apr 2017

People is free to post and/or talk of whatever they want, if you think this post is fake or not let them be.

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  • 3DR
  • 11 Apr 2017

When the government try to cover up their dirty work and nobody stands for it, don't see how a country can be ran by people who are willing to uncover a twitter, yes, TWITTER USER just because they have said some bad words about a man who's been doin...

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  • mjb2002
  • 4qi
  • 07 Apr 2017

Glad Twitter is suing this anti-American Administration. The Republicans have demonstrated their clear contempt for the US Constitution ever since March of last year, and especially since Thursday afternoon. Republicans are no longer in any posi...

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