Twitter Refuses NYPD Emergency Request for Info to Avert Violent Theater Attack: Good?

Moronic.

This is hardly the best example to prove the point, as to the importance of protecting internet free speech, but I am wary about a mass-paranoia police state replacing the freedom we so need.

But I have to wonder, it could be the rantings of some bored loser, with no plans to do anything, other than rant from their parent's basement, not realizing that somebody might take him (or her) too seriously.

We really don't want Big Brother government, breathing down our necks, as we type any comment that might remotely be critical of the government or the New World Order dominated mainstream misleadia news.

Twitter is right to suspect that too much cooperation with every police request, could become a bad habit, and greatly tarnish Twitter's reputation?

And why can't the NYPD do a better job averting this kind of situation, by making it easier to get Concealed Carry permits? As the gun rights crowd says,

"When seconds count, the police can be there in minutes."

Although I agree with the NYPD, all they had to do is have a subpoena issued by a judge mandating that the info be released. Any judge, in this case, would have issued that subpoena in less than 30 seconds. Failure to get a subpoena might have made any evidence collected invalid in a court of law later. What was the NYPD thinking? They should know better than that.

No subpoena, no records. NYPD doesn't like the constitution.

The nutcase said it was no joke, so he is fair game, and should be caught before it is too late.

I know privacy is important, but let's say your child told you that their friend told them a secret and that they didn't want to violate the friend's privacy, but that the friend said they were considering suicide! You would intervene somehow, wouldn't you. Well, that is because human life is the most important thing.

Protecting rights is important but when they cross the line and do what this creep did, turn their ass in and let the law determine their guilt.

FOLLOW THE RULE OF LAW.
All the cops had to do was get a judge to give them the paperwork so that they could get the information from Twitter. Instead they wasted time trying to REQUEST the information. Twitter is within its rights, no matter how dire the situation happens to be. Maybe they know something that we don't.
This is the fault of the police dept. for messing around REQUESTING info.

What were they thinking? This guy openly says he's going to kill.

I think they should have helped any way they could.You would think after what has happened they would understand its not a joke and as a social network be more socialbly responsable

The really bad part of this was the fact the New York post published this. All the police had to do with this info was to simply wait for this guy to show up, if he ever does. Now he has been warned and that will make it that much harder to defend that theater.
It also puts Twitter in a bad place because it is really not good business for them to hand over personal info of their customers. If this were not front page news it may have made it a bit easier for them to work with the police on this case.

WHAT IF YOU WERE IN THE THEATER, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT?

I would want the police to do their job correctly. This guy should have been picked up before any information was released If this story is factual. Truly shows the mentality of NYPD ... they think there above the law perhaps they tried skirting the warrant because they did not have enough justifiable evidence.

Twitter should not have privileges beyond that a psychiatrist.

Why help, when you can stand on the 4th Amendment (and the bodies of those who die)?