[Karsteski]

What would have happened had Twitter not complied with said suggestions? To the company, to the executives, to regular employees?

The threat of that is very real.

[ceejayoz]

> What would have happened had Twitter not complied with said suggestions?

Twitter did exactly that in some cases, with no apparent repercussions.

In the most recent transparency report (https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/countries/us.htm...) Twitter declined ~30% of data requests from US government agencies.

They are also suing the government over NSLs; https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2014/taking-the-fi...