Supreme Court Declines To Hear X’s Challenge to FBI Surveillance Gag Orders

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The social network formerly known as Twitter has been undergoing more than just “superficial” branding transformations as of late, going from a reliable ally of state-driven censorship, to a platform that became the first major one to try to shed light on the mechanisms and practices of deep censorship. The Twitter Files disclose more than just a private company exercising the right to be wrong in suppressing users’ free speech: they also implicated the US federal government with damning proof of serious transgressions, such as (explicitly unconstitutional) state collusion in censorship. However, the US Supreme Court has now refused to consider X’s request to be able to publish some relevant numbers. The original filing dates all the way back to 2014, in the wake of the revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, that sent shock waves both among citizens and politicians. But those behind the company/platform, now called X, seem well-aware that this story by no means ended with some government concessions (regarding disclosure) made after the Snowden revelations, or with the Twitter Files. And so, possibly as a defense tactic going forward, X tried to be granted the right to reveal the number of times federal law enforcement “gets in touch” to get information, framed as pertaining to national security. The Supreme Court decision came after X appealed when a lower instance court said that the FBI had every right to constrain X in…Supreme Court Declines To Hear X’s Challenge to FBI Surveillance Gag Orders