Tom Corbett, the Attorney General for Pennsylvania and Republican nominee for Governor had issued a subpoena against two Twitter users for insulting him.
Tom Corbett, current Attorney General of the state of Pennsylvania and Gubernatorial Candidate, has subpoenaed Twitter to appear as a Grand Jury witness to “testify and give evidence regarding alleged violations of the laws of Pennsylvania”.
The subpoena orders Twitter to provide “any and all subscriber information” of the person(s) behind two accounts – @bfbarbie and @CasaBlancaPA – who have been anonymously criticizing the man on the popular micro-sharing service.
According to the subpoena (embedded below), the information that Twitter is ordered to provide includes “name, address, contact information, creation date, creation Internet Protocol address and any and all log in Internet Protocol address”.
After a flurry of outrage from across the spectrum, Corbett announced today that his office will be dropping the subpoena.
Luckily, Dan Onorato, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate has called the suit “completely outrageous“. Needless to say, the criticism of Corbett has increased significantly on Twitter. Feel free to send him your thoughts @CorbettForGov. Be sure to visit CasablancaPA which is at the heart of the investigation. And of course add me on teh twitters!
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