This is a pretty important issue and it's almost surprising it has taken this long to come up.<p>The underlying problem is that unmasking someone is an act that can't be undone, so they should have to be notified that someone is requesting it and have the opportunity to contest the subpoena before it gets executed.<p>The fact that it has taken this long for it to come up exemplifies the problem -- the platform is the only one who knows about the subpoena before it gets executed, and they generally don't have a strong incentive to pay for lawyers to protect small time individual users. But if <i>they</i> don't do it then under this process the user is unmasked before the user can object to being unmasked, and then there is nothing to contest because it's too late.
I read the entire article, and I think this case boils down to<p>Genshin needs a twitter account's identity so a judge can rule on the case.<p>Twitter says they need a judge to rule on the case before they hand over the details.<p>How is this a contentious issue? Surely there's a standard protocol here. I feel like I must be missing something.