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Kinda weird take on this. I mean, none of this is a secret. The fact that we know about it precludes this.

Not to mention they did post court documents on twitter and tagged musk himself

https://twitter.com/STF_oficial/status/1828932387117392265

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What you linked isn’t the censorship order but a subsequent public order to X after X went public with its non compliance and complaints. Here’s an example censorship order to X that literally instructs them to perform the censorship in secret - this is the official Twitter account where they’re exposing the censorship scheme they were subject to from this one judge:

https://x.com/AlexandreFiles/status/1829979981130416479

Oh well i can see it on twitter! Still not secret!

The fact that twitter revealed the (supposed to be secret) order is the exact reason why they got banned.

Imagine if Clarence Thomas orders Facebook that they have to censor any negative posts about him, and they cannot reveal the reason the reason for censoring, with the threat of getting shut down.

You are being incredibly obtuse here. Imagine if a top secret document was published. The fact of the document being published does not mean that the document is no longer classified as top secret, just because it has been viewed by people without requisite clearance. Here, the order was secret and due to being a secret order, the public was not aware of it until X released documentation of the order. Documentation being released on the order does not mean that it was not a secret order.

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