This guy ain’t nothing to fuck wit. He’s the Wu Tang of prosecutors. Also, how fucken sweet it would be if Jack Smith also nailed that douche Elon Musk for obstruction or whatever.
Why not share the glory?
The Twitter part of this is hilarious. Basically Twitter was so disorganized they didn’t respond to the warrant on time and ended up with a $350k fine. Twitter was arguing against the protective order that prevented them from talking about it, but they didn’t contest the validity of the warrant and handed over the information. This all played out months ago, we’re finding out about it now because the appeals court decision has been partially unsealed.
From Politico’s article on this:
The opinion describes the Justice Department’s “difficulties” in initially making contact with Twitter — which had only recently been taken over by Musk — to serve the search warrant. Prosecutors first attempted to contact the company on Jan. 17 via its website for legal requests but found the page to be inoperative. On Jan. 19, the company finally connected with prosecutors but did not immediately comply with the warrant. On Jan. 25, when prosecutors prodded Twitter again, the company’s counsel claimed she “had not heard anything about the warrant.”
Finally, on Feb. 1, four days after the production deadline, Twitter raised a legal objection to the nondisclosure order.
“Although the company did not question the validity of the search warrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,” Pan noted. “Twitter informed the government that it would not comply with the warrant until the district court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”
On Feb. 2, Twitter filed a motion to vacate the nondisclosure order and Smith’s team sought a contempt order from Howell. Howell held Twitter in contempt and approved fines beginning at $50,000 a day, doubling for each day of noncompliance.
“The court adopted that suggestion, noting that Twitter was sold for over $40 billion and that its owner’s net worth was over $180 billion. Twitter did not object to the sanctions formula,” the appeals court noted.
Twitter did not fully comply until Feb. 9, resulting in the $350,000 fine.
$50K per day, doubling every day, that will get pretty much anybody’s attention, damn.
Would have been interesting if the poop emoji auto reply had been implemented at this time.
Also it’s hilarious that they took Elon’s “richest man in the world” bragging & turned it against him.
Are the servers at Twitter that would even hold that data still turned on or even there? I feel like Musk would have sold them on ebay already.
Also, does anyone who still works there even know how to pull that info? With all the firings, I’m legitimately surprised the entire site hasn’t completely collapsed.
I’m sure it’s still in the same database with all of the other user and post information. When accounts are deleted online it’s usually a soft delete. A flag is set saying the account is deleted, but the information is still there.
I have no doubt his information is still in the database. Unless it’s in their TOS after like 4 years of account termination or deletion that all data is deleted then it’s there. Pulling data and exporting really isn’t difficult even with not many workers since well… it would have to be some sort of priority. Hell, one person could even do it if they have documentation for this and what tables to pull from just from their account key
Twitter is running better than ever and releasing feature faster than ever. Their previously bloated staff were either lazy, incompetent, or both.
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lol i wonder how much of a troll that silver spoon South African dipshit is going to be
It all already played out.
Elon Musk’s Twitter not only didn’t have any lawyers home to accept the request, but they balked at providing the data, which was originally due on January 27, because they wanted to tell Trump about it first.
Ultimately, then Chief Judge Beryl Howell had to hold Twitter in contempt for 3 days before it turned over all the requested data on February 9. The DC Circuit just upheld Howell on all counts — the imposition of the gag, the contempt and the fine.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/09/beryl-howell-held-elon-musks-xitter-in-contempt/
nice and it’s already been upheld, thanks for that update
How do you hold a corporate in contempt?
Fine, seize assets, shutter aspects of the business or all operations completely.
In before Trump’s Twitter searches for hentai feet pics and piss porn are leaked.
Except we already know Trump’s fetishes: little girls and women who resemble his daughter
He looks just likd Coach Beard from Ted Lasso!
Gears of Justice, baybay!!
Half of those books he’s reading are dense legal reference books if you look closely
No matter what you think about all this stuff, everyone should be against these protective orders. Users should have a right to know when their data is being requested by the government.
We passed some absolutely horrible laws here in Australia where our government can tell a developer to put a back door in the software they’re working on at work, and if they don’t they can be thrown in jail. If they tell anyone they’ve been asked to do it - also straight to jail. Protective orders like these are there to basically hide dirty tactics.
There are legitimate reasons for a user not to know they are being investigated. Treason would be one of them.
I completely agree that it should not be commonplace, nor automatic. Purposely placing back doors makes all our data insecure.
It’s not a dirty tactic to investigate people, especially where notifying them would risk the prosecution succeeding. How about those sharing child porn online. If they were notified that their isp was requesting their data, do you think they don’t wipe their drives? Or a drug dealer whose phone is tapped? Or a murderer who doesn’t know they are a suspect. Etc etc.
Adam22 looking weird
