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They have one very good thing to complain about: the comment very clearly violated no laws. TechDirt had the burden of preserving records and a gag on their spe

• cyanydeez 5y ago
  do you think, if i created a dragnet of internet comments threatening violence might happen in multiple forums across the internet, to varying degrees to silly to seriously contemplative? you think, perchance, they were actually looking at multiple comments from multiple sources presenting a pattern of behaviour by some pseudononymous potential plotter? people are so self centered and ignorant of these things,.
• Natsu 5y ago
  The comment in question was: "Hell, eventually somebody might decide that it’s cheaper to pay a hitman to just cut a brake line or something than go through discovery in that judge’s court." It was in reply to a story about the founder of Silk Road being arrested for, among other things, hiring a hitman. In the Ulbrecht case, the hitman was a FED and was paid by Ulbrecht after giving staged photographic evidence of a murder. It looks like they were investigating whether this person was doing anything in furtherance of such a plot beyond just angry comments and wanted them to keep quiet while they investigated.
• shadowgovt 5y ago
  That's a pretty standard burden for any org that hosts third-party speech to expect to have occasionally. I've worked at two places that had a legal hold SOP.