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Yes. It can result in a contempt charge, if the recipient does not comply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con

• cobrabyte 5y ago
  Reading the first couple of sentences, it looks like Contempt of Congress applies only if you ignore a subpoena. It doesn't appear that Congress used subpoena powers (I may be wrong in this assumption) for this request, and Gab's reply to their request for information was optional. Of course, Gab understands that to ignore the request altogether would have left them open to further harassment by the government, and they provided as little information as possible, but still complied with the request.
  • cguess 5y ago
    This sort of request is the nice way of saying that a subpoena is forthcoming, so don't you dare lose anything. If, in a month or two, the subpoena comes they can't respond with "oops! We had no idea we were supposed to keep those documents."
    • smaryjerry 5y ago
      The response is more saying, “we don’t review or classify misinformation at all so don’t ask us about how we moderate it.” Subpoena or not the response would be the same.
• masklinn 5y ago
  Contempt is in failure to respond to a subpoena. A subpoena is the risk if you don’t respond to a congressional request. So this is two steps removed from a potential contempt charge.