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.
They deleted the entire account, making all data unavailable in a way that IS entirely illegal. All communications of the president are considered to be official. Silicon valley dweebs can't decide to erase them. Well.. They can, but they'll pay the price for doing so.
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.
They deleted the entire account, making all data unavailable in a way that IS entirely illegal. All communications of the president are considered to be official. Silicon valley dweebs can't decide to erase them. Well.. They can, but they'll pay the price for doing so.
I'm a software engineer. Nothing was deleted. Everything is still in the database.