Homeland Security Versus the First Amendment

Being able to express things in different forms is a freedom from the First Amendment and doing it without restrictions is a right that should follow. According to the NPR article Twitter Sues Homeland Security To Protect Anonymity Of ‘Alt Immigration’ Account by Camila Domonoske, Trumps’ administration began to limit the amount of posts agencies can have on social media thus, leading many to create alternate accounts with pseudonyms that relate to the account.

Homeland Security infringed on these rights by trying to uncover the identity of the owner of the ALT Immigration account on Twitter. Homeland Security “demanded to know the name, login information, phone number, mailing address and IP address of the user.” By uncovering the identity, they would shut down the account also layout legal punishment for the owner of the account. In response, ALT Immigration posted an imagery-filled comment of, “FYI, some refugees became refugees out of fear of being unmasked by dictators because of dissent/opposing views . Lets not have that here.”

Not only was the response from ALT Immigration sound, but Twitters’ response by suing Homeland Security was very supportive of protecting peoples’ rights. If Twitter were to lose then “where will they stop?”