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DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet

Posted on October 24, 2017 by Dissent

Over on TechDirt, Mike Masnick had the patience to write up and report on some of what I should have written up already, but hadn’t.

Read Mike’s report on how I and others wound up as the targets of a grand jury subpoena on TechDirt.

And if you read carefully, you’ll see that I wound up in the subpoena because someone added me to a list and sent me a smiley emoticon. I was not part of any convo, and I had not tweeted. Nor did I respond to the smiley. And yet the grand jury could then subpoena all of my information from Twitter, it seems.

I’ll have more to say on all this.

 

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3 thoughts on “DOJ Subpoenas Twitter About Popehat, Dissent Doe And Others Over A Smiley Emoji Tweet”

  1. Regret says:
    October 24, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    F*ck em. Let me know if you need cash for a defense. I’ll help.

  2. Regret says:
    October 24, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    …. oh great, now I’ll get a subpoena! 🙂

    1. Dissent says:
      October 24, 2017 at 4:17 pm

      Actually, I’d get the subpoena – for your details. Or my web host would. And I’d have to fight the subpoena to protect you.

      And then..

      And then…

      LOL

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