Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.
Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court. The subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in the capital after ICE’s effort to identify the same user failed in a Northern California federal court. (The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington declined to comment on the case.)
I don’t remember the federal government ever working against so many citizens before. They are a hostile takeover.
It’s state sponsored terrorism, period.
They are showing us what they can and will do if the rest of us don’t stop posting and get in line.
They are just more overt. The government has long been the enemy of most good things.
Yeah it’s so bad they have me hoping for a military coup, never in my life would i have ever dreamed of wanting a military coup but now after trump was elected i understand why they’re necessary sometimes.
Military coups usually don’t install a democracy.
Bro the democratically elected president rapes children and starts wars for insider trading. Lile wtf are you talking about democracy??
“Firefighters usually dont install furniture” that’s what you sound like