Not a lawyer — but what ever happened to "fuck off, see you in court"?
Did they already go that route and lose — or is this an example of caving early?
This is a court order. They saw them in court, and this was the result: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NYT-v...
‘We want you to collect user data for ‘national security’ purposes. If you try and litigate, we will add so much red tape you’ll be mummified alive’
The spaghetti framework of laws and discretionary enforcement is so incredibly dangerous to free speech, such as when the government started making demands of facebook to censor content during the pandemic. The government shouldn't be able to so much as breathe on any person or company for speech.
What if it was the other way around, Facebook were using their advantage to censor things they don’t want though? I’m not saying any government is perfect and agree that speech should be free, but it’s more complex than that.
This makes a whole lot more sense than the argument that OpenAI needs to store every single chat because a few people might be bypassing NYT's paywall with it.