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 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.
@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.
@nsqe I think you're right, and I want to follow up on that