▲ 530 ▼ Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says (gizmodo.com) submitted 6 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/reddit@lemmy.world 90 comments fedilink hide all child comments DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.
[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 child) Most that hit Lemmy are pretty damn obvious and get banned quickly by mods and instance admins. So far the slightly more complex reddit style ones haven't been turned on us yet. Probably don't think the smaller userbase is worth the effort. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 months ago I suspect these more advanced Reddit bots are given some kind of special access via private APIs or other backend integration from the Reddit staff / devs themselves. Which they won’t get here. Of course, the whole thing is open source, so they could modify that as needed and run it on their own instances. Of course, those instances would then be easy to spot and defederate. And on and on. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 months ago I suspect these more advanced Reddit bots are given some kind of special access via private APIs or other backend integration from the Reddit staff / devs themselves. Which they won’t get here. Of course, the whole thing is open source, so they could modify that as needed and run it on their own instances. Of course, those instances would then be easy to spot and defederate. And on and on. permalink fedilink source parent