The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena authorities filed through a social media site. Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp, LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU, said his agency has moved to have the subpoena, sent via Twitter, quashed on First Amendment grounds. A hearing has been continued to Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court.
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Specifically, the investigation is reportedly focused on the October 21 hacking of websites of the Boston Police Patrolmens' Association by hackers who self-identified with Anonymous, who said they were conducting the hacks in retaliation for the "unprovoked mass arrests" of some 141 Occupy Boston protesters on October 11. The hackers obtained and posted identifying information about Boston police officers online, and links of the information were tweeted by the @p0isAn0N and @OccupyBoston accounts.