Last week, the news came out that Pennsylvania Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate), Tom Corbett, was so thin-skinned that he had subpoenaed Twitter to try to get at the identity of some anonymous online critics. Of course, all this really did was draw attention to (a) the criticism of Corbett and (b) his incredibly thin skin when it comes to criticism. Twitter, thankfully, didn’t just roll over, and now Corbett has dropped the subpoena. Of course, one of the reasons Corbett was trying to unmask the identity of the commenter was because he believed it may have been someone he had already targeted in a political corruption scandal — who was being sentenced on Friday. However, without being able to identify the user by the time of the sentencing, he couldn’t use that in pushing for a tougher sentence. So, in the end, Corbett didn’t get what he was after, but called a lot more attention to criticism of him. Nice work.
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