Internet Law
After Subpoena, Twitter Gives Cops Account Info of 'Die Like Aurora' Tweeter
Twitter initially turned down an emergency request from New York police to turn over account information of a person who warned of “mass murder” at a Broadway theater.
Twitter changed course after receiving a subpoena for the information, report the New York Times and the New York Post.
The Twitter writer threatened an attack at a theater where Mike Tyson is appearing in a one-man show directed by Spike Lee. Among the tweets that caused alarm: “I’m serious, people are gonna die like Aurora” and “I got 600 people on my hit list and that’s gonna be a mass murder for real.”
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