Q: Are "confession" twitter accounts legal?
If there's a local twitter account where students submit "confessions" anonymously but no names are mentioned and tweets are deleted by the account administrators at the request of people can the law or the cops do anything about it?
The account is supposed to encompass a region of over a hundred high schools in upstate New York and students from these schools "confess" interesting or strange things to the page to share with the other schools and students. The names of people are never published, and when requested the administrators are very proactive at removing content that people claim to be harmful or hurtful to them. Is there anything the cops can do if someone goes to them about it since it's not necessarily calling someone out or singling them out explicitly?
Thanks!
A: You do not think that the government can find out exactly who made what post? They can, and if there is evidence of a crime, you can bet they will.
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