But they are not actually destroying government records, they are just removing them from view. If someone does a FOIA request, the tweets will be there.
Oh sure, we'll just take everything the government has ever said ever, scrub it from all public records, and put it somewhere in display at the local planning office in Alpha Centauri. That's totally "keeping the records".
"We kept them, there's all in that rocket orbiting the sun, you can go get them whenever you want."
I mean....this is how most government records work. You want a government official's emails? You have to do a FOIA request.
My main point is that I don't think Twitter is breaking the law because there is no way the tweets have been "destroyed" as the law mentions. Nothing is destroyed.
Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement Act of 2017
How many of us are thinking "why didn't we think of that before?"
I am.
Same.
If Trump isn't allowed to block people on Twitter, Twitter shouldn't be allowed to block him.
But they are not actually destroying government records, they are just removing them from view. If someone does a FOIA request, the tweets will be there.
Oh sure, we'll just take everything the government has ever said ever, scrub it from all public records, and put it somewhere in display at the local planning office in Alpha Centauri. That's totally "keeping the records".
"We kept them, there's all in that rocket orbiting the sun, you can go get them whenever you want."
I mean....this is how most government records work. You want a government official's emails? You have to do a FOIA request.
My main point is that I don't think Twitter is breaking the law because there is no way the tweets have been "destroyed" as the law mentions. Nothing is destroyed.