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Marcuse

(7,399 posts)
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:50 PM Nov 2020

Lincoln Project Was Locked Out of Twitter Account for Posting Contact Info of Trump Campaign Lawyers

Source: Law and Crime

Access to the account was revoked after the group posted contact information for Porter Wright Morris & Arthur attorneys Ronald Hicks and Carolyn McGee–who are currently leading highly controversial Republican Party efforts to overturn the election results in Pennsylvania.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lincoln-project-was-locked-out-of-twitter-account-for-posting-contact-info-of-trump-campaign-lawyers-who-filed-pa-lawsuit/



Hopefully the LP account will be restored soon.
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Lincoln Project Was Locked Out of Twitter Account for Posting Contact Info of Trump Campaign Lawyers (Original Post) Marcuse Nov 2020 OP
Its in the Phone Book-(ask your Daddy)-hell its required to be placed on the pleadings Stallion Nov 2020 #1
They can just put it on very large billboards! mysteryowl Nov 2020 #2
It's on their pleadings and that's public record. TruckFump Nov 2020 #4
Is the Right howling "censorship"? torius Nov 2020 #3
They should delete the offending tweet and replace it with the names of the people and a link RockRaven Nov 2020 #5
Jones day would have a list of their bios and contact info on their website anyways. Claustrum Nov 2020 #6
And there's always Martindale Hubbell! lastlib Nov 2020 #14
"The Lincoln Project later deleted the tweet and regained access to its account" Me. Nov 2020 #7
Oh Good to Know! Cha Nov 2020 #8
Aloha Me. Nov 2020 #11
YES WE DO Need TLP Right Now! Cha Nov 2020 #12
Oops, Me in #7 beat me to it /nt progree Nov 2020 #9
Good News Flies Fast Me. Nov 2020 #10
Was it their private phone numbers? If not then the ban is bullshit. cstanleytech Nov 2020 #13
Other groups are busy at this effort Gothmog Nov 2020 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Gothmog Nov 2020 #18
While I do see Twitter's point, soldierant Nov 2020 #16
WTF. Attorneys are required to have publicly viewable contact info on the state bar website. SunSeeker Nov 2020 #17
TLP is back posting Gothmog Nov 2020 #19
Awesome, thanks. Just posted this on Facebook. ancianita Nov 2020 #20
If it was their work contact info, no problem. Warpy Nov 2020 #21

Stallion

(6,473 posts)
1. Its in the Phone Book-(ask your Daddy)-hell its required to be placed on the pleadings
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:53 PM
Nov 2020

below the signature block. Public record

RockRaven

(14,784 posts)
5. They should delete the offending tweet and replace it with the names of the people and a link
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 11:00 PM
Nov 2020

to a website (yellow pages or LinkedIn or whatever) which correctly gives the number as the first hit on a search of said names. Their names are on their goddamned court filings after all, and search engine/social media home pages are not doxxing.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
6. Jones day would have a list of their bios and contact info on their website anyways.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 11:01 PM
Nov 2020

All lawyers do.

I kind of feel bad for their secretaries because they have to screen all the incoming calls.

Me.

(35,454 posts)
11. Aloha
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 11:43 PM
Nov 2020

we need then right now, jones day has already said they are not associated with trump's efforts


Response to Gothmog (Reply #15)

soldierant

(6,648 posts)
16. While I do see Twitter's point,
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 01:42 AM
Nov 2020

I still think they are wrong. They haven't thought it out. A firm that is in business to earn fees from cients has to make its address public or they won't have any clients. It's true that their place of business is private property, also, but that's why someone who comes somewhere to do business with those there is called a "licensee." The public has an implicit license to come there. (The public can, of course, be removed for misbehavior there.

It feels like we once all instinctively knew this (though not the terminology, just the facts.) That common knowledge appears to have disappeared.

SunSeeker

(51,378 posts)
17. WTF. Attorneys are required to have publicly viewable contact info on the state bar website.
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 02:28 AM
Nov 2020

At least they are in CA.


Warpy

(110,913 posts)
21. If it was their work contact info, no problem.
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 01:42 PM
Nov 2020

Those guys would consider it free advertising.

If it was their home contact information, that crossed a line. Bad boys!

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