( Reuters) – Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance demands it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted federal government arguments that this was most likely to damage national security after a near six-year long legal battle.
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The social networks company had actually sued the U.S. Department of Justice in 2014 to be enabled to expose, as part of its “Draft Transparency Report”, the monitoring requests it got. It argued its free-speech rights were being broken by not being enabled to reveal the details.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the govern