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Plenty of telecoms have had 24 hour abuse desks, which generally handled this sort of thing. Even more specialized departments for law enforcement in the huge majors and you always had a 24x7 on-call legal counsel if needed. It is absolutely possible to get someone on in real time if you are Important(tm) enough and have a lawful reason that is life critical in nature.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, etc. all pretty much fall under the "telecom" label these days in what they do, so it's not surprising in the least.

Just expanding on that - not dipping my toe into any other part of this debate!



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