lol national security..oh that one bahahahaI agree, in theory.
But they don't, in practice. They issue requests where it involves national security or public health and safety (i.e. terrorism). Social media and other internet platforms or non-internet media outlets are free to cooperate or not.
I don't know about you, but I want the government stepping in ask issuing those requests. And I want the government to publicize when at attack succeeds because an organization failed to cooperate with a request that would have prevented that attack.
It's up to the private organizations to decide what to do. Although the details aren't generally made public, the government is refused plenty of times where the organizations decide the case for the threat isn't strong enough.
Sometimes stuff becomes public and gets blown way out of proportion which is easy to do because the details are often classified so people can make up whatever partial-truth narratives they want and neither the private media organization nor the government can respond to correct the disinformation. Such is life in a free society.
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