The lawsuit threatened to become a major battle between Silicon Valley and Washington over free speech. The government, to enforce its subpoena, would have had to demonstrate that whoever is behind the Twitter account was likely to be violating some law. The number of followers for the Twitter account grew from “over 32,000” to more than 150,000 in less than 24 hours. But the user did thank Twitter and the ACLU. We want to thank @twitter and @aclu for standing up for the right of free anonymous speech.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 17:41 UTC