If 8th release:
- showing for the 1st time it went beyond FBI/DOD/etc to include plenty of CIA. But the CIA involvement was always hidden by using an "OGA" label aka "Other Government Agency".
- a 90-person US task force ostensibly designed to combat "Foreign Influence" spent tons of time on domestic accounts.
- again shows Twitter under lots of pressure to find "foreign influence" but struggling to find any
- Twitter was getting overwhelmed with requests, the FBI were sending lists of hundreds of accounts to be banned
- explains how gov requests were carefully tailored by FBI to always be "Terms of Service violations", they'd come up with a reason to ban them that neatly tailored to fit the TOS... (which is kinda like parallel reconstruction if you think about it, just work backwards to find a reason)
The long form is, the gov can't compel someone to remove a post if it's not illegal due to the 1A.
But they can suggest a company to "moderate" the post for them, to the same effect.
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It's the same thing as when they collect data from companies.
It would be illegal for the government to spy on you, but the companies willingly give them your data.