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The Trump Administration No Longer Wants Twitter To Reveal the Owner of an Anti-Trump Account (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the all-good dept.

From a report on Recode: The Trump administration informed Twitter on Friday that it would withdraw its demand that the social media company unmask an account critical of the president -- a move that prompted Twitter to drop its lawsuit. On Thursday, Twitter revealed that U.S. customs agents filed a legal order in a bid to get the company to reveal who is behind @ALT_USCIS -- a so-called "alt-agency" account that has been taking aim at Trump, his immigration policy and the inner workings of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

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  1. Re:Verbiage by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be fair, Trump has not staffed something like two thirds of the non-cabinet positions he's supposed to appoint (as well as making noises that he's probably not going to either.) One of his principal advisers, Bannon, is also on record about their desire to severely shrink gov and retain more control at the executive level (Kushner's massive portfolio is a good example of this.) So, unlike the more diffuse administrations of the past, control and command is very much vested in the White House, and therefore, Trump himself.

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  2. Re:So sad... by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    good luck with that:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I *lived* with a BPD for a decade before I successfully extricated myself from that disaster area.

    Trump displays so many hallmarks of this that I actually get mild anxiety attacks from watching him.
    There is *no* timing the cycles of "up on a pedestal" to demonization and back... none.

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  3. Paging Senator Franken... by Lost+Race · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This flagrant attempt to abuse executive powers for political purposes provides the perfect opportunity for a high-profile congressional investigation. Whoever gave the order to send this summons to Twitter should be fired at the very least. If it was Trump himself (who else could it be, really?) then get the impeachment ball rolling!