US Drops Effort to Force Twitter to Reveal Anti-Trump Account

The U.S. government has ended its effort to force Twitter to identify who is behind an account critical of President Donald Trump.
美国政府放弃努力，不再强迫推特去确定是谁在使用谴责总统唐纳德·川普的账号。
After the announcement, Twitter said it has cancelled a lawsuit against the U.S. government.Twitter had been planning to claim that federal officials did not have the power to force it to reveal the account owners.
这个消息公布后，推特说它已经撤回了反对美国政府的诉讼。推特一直要宣称联邦官员无权强迫它透露账号的使用者。
The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection had sought the identity of the users of the Twitter account @ALT_USCIS.
国土安全局和美国海关和边境保护局一直在寻找@ALT_USCIS这个推特账号的用户身份。
The account describes itself as “immigration resistance.”In February, its creators told the Associated Press news agency that they are current and former employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),that is a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
这个账号将自己描述为“移民抵制”。二月份的时候，其创建者告诉美联社新闻通讯社他们是美国公民及移民服务局的现任及前任雇员，美国公民及移民服务局是国土安全局的一部分。
Almost 9,000 messages have been sent by the account since it was created in January, the month Trump took office.
该账号创建于一月份川普就职之时，自创建以来，已经推送了近9000条消息。
It is one of several accounts that reportedly have been created by former or current federal employees who oppose Trump.
传闻它是反对川普的前任或者现任联邦雇员所创建的账号之一。
It is not known why the government cancelled its effort to identify the creator or creators of the Twitter account.And it is not known if the government has also ended its own investigation into who is operating the account.
政府放弃确定推特账号的创建者或者创建者们的原因不得而知。也不知道政府是否已经放弃调查谁在使用这个账号。
The American Civil Liberties Union called the government’s decision to withdraw its request a “big victory for free speech and the right to dissent.”
美国公民自由联盟将这次政府撤回要求的决定称为一场“言论自由和异议权的伟大胜利”。
Friday, the account tweeted: “We want to thank @twitter and @aclu for standing up for the right of free anonymous speech.Thank you resistance for standing up for us.”
星期五，这个账号推送：“我们想要感谢推特和美国公民自由联盟站出来维护匿名言论的自由。感谢你们为我们站起来进行抗议。”
News reports about the account have helped it sharply increase the number of people who are following it.@ALT_USCIS now has more than 192,000 followers.
对这个账号的新闻报道导致其关注者的数量激增。关注@ALT_USCIS账号的人现在超过了192000人。