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Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.

Those three companies, plus Discord, have received “hundreds” of such requests that have come from DHS recently. Meta, it should be noted, is the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

Administrative subpoenas used for this purpose represent an escalation. This tool, which comes not from a judge but from DHS itself, was formerly reserved for situations like child abductions, according to the Times.

The users were targeted because their posts “criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents,” the Times says.

A Google spokesperson replied to the Times with a statement, saying “When we receive a subpoena, our review process is designed to protect user privacy while meeting our legal obligations,” and “We inform users when their accounts have been subpoenaed, unless under legal order not to or in an exceptional circumstance. We review every legal demand and push back against those that are overbroad.”

Gizmodo requested comment from Meta, Discord, and Reddit. We will update if we hear back.

According to the Times, one or multiple of the relevant companies have stated that they notify users of these requests from DHS, and give them a 14-day window to “fight the subpoena in court” before complying.

Amazon has also been accused of at least some degree of participation with ICE’s ongoing mass deportation efforts. In October, Amazon-owned Ring announced a partnership with Flock that would loop the AI-powered network into the content coming from users’ doorbell cameras. According to a 404 Media investigation, that network feeds information to law enforcement agencies at the local and federal levels, allowing for reasonable concern that ICE has access to all that footage.

Protesters have launched an effort called “Resist and Unsubscribe” targeting ten tech companies they perceive as exceptionally supportive of ICE. That list includes Meta, Google, and Amazon, but not Reddit.

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and...info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279 (Archive)

r/law seethe: https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1r5s9r6/reddit_is_voluntarily_giving_dhs_info_of_users/ (Archive)
 
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Bootlicker advice: if you plan to attack federal agents, don’t openly discuss it on clearnet, or frankly anywhere that isn’t encrypted
 
Anyone who thinks any website or corporation is gonna protect you from the federal government is a delusional fool. Nice to see big government used for my benefit for a change.
 
Hopefully this leads to Total Reddit Death, but we know it won't. Redditors will still be posting on their favorite website while they give their data over to Homeland Security.
 
It's about time these homosexual socialist LARPer sites do something to support this country.
 
Think any of them remember when the White House was sending *daily* lists of problematic users/posts to all the BigTech firms for censorship during St. Floydmas?

Not even a pretense of "information sharing", just flat out "and can you take care of these too?" every day for years.
 
The EFF has been seething about this while Reclaim the Net has been focusing on the issues that the former doesn't touch.
 
Not A Bunny said:
You wanted consistency from those chucklefucks?
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Oh no, of course not. Why would I waste time expecting that? :lit:

That would be like expecting people who swore that "they weren't going to actually (arrest, investigate, or charge) any of these rioting Leftists" to not suddenly move the goalpost;)
 
chiobu said:
Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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That "some" is doing a lot of heavy lifting and is completely unaddressed lol

Something tells me that some of those posts might have been completely unhinged to the point of worryingly close to death threats or encouraging violence which probably was the difference between "nah" and "here you go".
 
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