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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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Isn't this the same crowd that constantly smuggly chuckles that freedom of speech Isn't freedom from consequences?
 
Xarpho's Return said:
Rather than thinking "yes those MAGAts should fry" when the feds were looking for everyone that was in DC to great success, it's really some short-sightedness to not think that they wouldn't use that same power against you.

It's like with the PATRIOT Act, of the people who voted against it, most of it was party-line bullshit rather than realizing that giving the government immense power could harm citizens or how being labeled a terrorist is just a judgement away.
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And, you see, the Republicans and Trump are supposed to sit still and do nothing with that power out of principle while the Democrats abuse the fuck out of it when they're in power. While lying that they're not doing that to their dumbshit, low info "I'm educated and informed by CNN" voting base.

You don't have to like Trump's policies (I have a lot of problems with them, especially his economic policies), but you can't deny he is different than earlier presidents. He's the only guy in my entire life who has been willing to deport illegals with force. And the next guy won't be willing to do half of what he at least tries to do. I think a lot of his supporters know that and so are less sympathetic to the "lose with dignity" arguements than ever before.
 
TowinKarz said:
they don't fear being abused by laws they write because they have already decided in their heart of hearts that they will eventually, sooner rather than later, achieve permanent power
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They don't think that far ahead. They just think they are The Good People(TM), and therefore any laws they write to hurt The Bad People(TM) won't backfire. Their protest is an insurrection, ours is fiery but peaceful.
 
These idiots downvoted and banned anyone who said that calls for violence are a bad fucking idea, and now they’re finally suffering the consequences. Suffah, Redditors. Enjoy your subpoena, Reddit child.
 
“We’re the counter culture resistance, but we wholly expect every institution in our society to actively support us and fight on our behalf.”
 
That's I come to the Farms to run over glowies with my car.
Null will never give me out, right?
 
Uzumaki said:
“We’re the counter culture resistance, but we wholly expect every institution in our society to actively support us and fight on our behalf.”
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Hey, that's how it was for them during the 2020 BLM Color Revolution, so they've gone in on the anti-ICE crusade expecting the same institutional backing.
 
It is quite ironic that Redditors who have been begging for big government knee to fall on their necks is now getting it just not the way they want it.


They're the ones who helped this system. They deserve the 'help' the system wants to give back to them.
 
Yeah guess what when you say government officers should be assaulted and murdered and participate in conspiracy to obstruct justice, the government is gonna collect all the info about you it can. Doing it on a big mainstream social media platform only makes it easier for the government to notice and to collect that info
 
>fedposting on normie websites without saying "in angry birds star wars" afterwards
KWAB
 
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