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Re:FB and Twitter have special portals for the government to... by Ptchd on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:55AM (#33419453)
They do get that info from them already... Didn't you see Snowden's leak 10 years ago?
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Re:FB and Twitter have special portals for the government to... by astrange on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:13AM (#33419607)
I actually know how these things work and you don’t need to lecture me with what you thought you understood someone bragging in a PowerPoint to mean.

They get that info through legal processes like subpoenas that Twitter is entitled to fight because they’re private. And they put lots of legally unnecessary effort and their own money into fighting them; other platforms don’t try nearly as hard to stop it. See the DevinCow case.

Of course Elon just fired the exec who did this.

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Re:FB and Twitter have special portals for the government to... by Ptchd on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:58PM (#33442821)
> I actually know how these things work

At least you think you do...

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Re:FB and Twitter have special portals for the government to... by astrange on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:35PM (#33445609)
As in I've dealt with all of it professionally and spoken to lawyers on all these topics, yes.

Also, this story seems to be fake anyway.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/bullshit-reporting-the-i...

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