Sony isn't about to limit its "cease and desist" rhetoric to journalists and networks who are publicizing information revealed in the wake of its giant disaster hack. Now, they're threatening Twitter itself with legal action over individual users whose tweets contain links to leaked material.

According to reporting from Vice, a letter was sent from Sony's crisis counsel lawyer to Twitter’s general counsel stating that if “stolen information continues to be disseminated by Twitter in any manner,” Sony will “hold Twitter responsible for any damage or loss arising from such use or dissemination by Twitter.”

Here's the letter, and below, the demands, which include "destroying" tweets. Not like people screenshot tweets or anything.

"We ask that you promptly suspend the Account Holder’s Twitter account and:
(1) notify us using the contact information provided below;
(2) take all reasonable actions to prevent your company and any of your employees, independent contractors, agents, consultants, account holders, or anyone who may have access to your files from examining, copying, disseminating, distributing, publishing, downloading, uploading, or making any other use of the Stolen Information;
(3) arrange for and supervise the destruction of all copies of the Stolen Information in your possession or under your control, particularly information protected under U.S. and foreign legal doctrines protecting attorney-client privileged communications, attorney work product, and related privileges and protections, as well as private financial and other confidential information and communications of SPE’s current and former personnel and others, confidential personnel data, intellectual property, trade secrets and other business secrets and related communications;
(4) confirm that such destruction has been completed; and
(5) comply with all future requests with regard to any other account holder seeking to disseminate the Stolen Information via Twitter."

Sony also asked that Twitter kindly share the legal threat with @bikinirobotarmy, aka Val Broeksmit, a musician posting screenshots of leaked Sony emails.

The big question this raises, which has been brought up before, is how Twitter might be responsible for content posted or linked to by its users. In the past, the company has said it would suspend accounts sharing the video of photojournalist James Foley's beheading by ISIS, and it now deletes abusive images and messages in the wake of Robin Williams’ daughter's complaints. But can Twitter really police the 500 million tweets that appear every day on the site?

At least we know Sony is hip to the popular Twitter dot com refrain of "Never tweet."