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Twitter takes on the US government in a lawsuit since withdrawn Twitter said the US government wanted the company to reveal the identity of whoever was behind the alt underscore USCIS account that account criticizes the Trump administration's handling of US citizenship and immigration services or USCIS the lawsuit also said US Customs and Border Protection issued a summons in March that would allow the agency to learn the identity of the account holder Twitter said that allowing the agency to get this information would have a grave chilling effect on the speech of that account in particular and other accounts that are critical of the government all to underscore USCIS penned a tweet of the First Amendment to its account page it also tweeted FYI some refugees became refugees out of fear of being unmasked by dictators because of dissent / opposing views let's not have that here in the lawsuit Twitter said the summons did not apply to its users normally this kind of summons is used when customs find something suspicious with merchandise being imported additionally Twitter said the US government infringed on its first amendment rights the US government has since withdrawn its request and twitter has dropped its lawsuit for more details check out cnet com am I as actor I'll see you online