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D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic
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this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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This is a reminder to everyone. If you or someone you know is still on Reddit. Use an extension to bulk deleted everything before deleting the account. You're friends and family are not safe posting on reddit.
I am no fan of reddit but in this case Reddit appears to have championed this users anonymity going so far as to actively draw the ire of the administration.
You’re not wrong that you’re not safe posting on Reddit, but if this case is any indication you’re not any less safe posting in Reddit than any other site, including Lemmy.
You can choose the location (and thus legal jurisdiction) of your home instance, but yeah, in general, I think that people need to be aware that server operators on the Threadiverse are probably not going to fight legal battles on your behalf.
We had someone ask about turning over IP addresses to law enforcement a while back on lemmy.today. The lemmy.today server admin gave what I'd call probably a pretty accurate answer.
https://lemmy.today/post/7255213
It linked to a similar question for lemmy.dbzer0.com:
There are platforms more-aimed at providing harder pseudonymity. I'd put Hyphanet fairly high on the list of "a pain in the ass to track a poster down due to technical barriers" list (though that comes with very real performance and latency and suchlike costs).
To answer for Quokk.au. If I had to, I’d delete the instance and all data before ever handing anything over. They can take me to court if need be.
I run an instance filled with trans people and anarchists, I would risk a lot to protect them from the state.
Big props to you! Thank you for defendeing their rights.
Why should the instance care about my ip? Why would they log it? Idem emails. Why tf do you care? We need a privacy preserving/enhancing server.
Your comment was auto-removed for profanity, an admin will review it and undelete it soon if there has been an error. Sorry for the inconvenience.
That is what I said
We know. We exist out of spite.
Life is not safe. It's pretty relatively safe, as compared to living under a lean-to in the woods with bears and disease carrying insects and such, and even that's safer than people make it out to be. However, there are "dangerous things" out there, both in the woods and in the streets and in the organized crime / government. Are you more likely to die of a car crash, or a malicious action of some organized group, or a car crash arranged by some organized group? It's really hard to be sure, but if the available information is anything close to accurate, you're better off worrying about a car crash than a meteorite strike, or shark bite, or bad people targeting you.
Isn’t Reddit owned by China? WTF is Trump going to do?
Reddit is owned by Vanguard, Blackrock, JP Morgan, etc
You'd really think they could afford hiring some moderators.
Reddit is headquartered in San Francisco
harder to make a international site comply though
Only if that country doesn’t have info sharing treaties with the US. So much of Europe isn’t any safer than in the US.
From what I've been hearing that hasn't been working anymore.
Can you do that for a banned account?
If you wait long enough they'll unban your account. I lost my 10 year old account a few months before the API debacle over referencing piracy in /r/movies and then inadvertently commenting there on an alt account, and just discovered that it was completely restored a few months ago.
Good to know, since I was shadow-banned for "circumventing a ban" even though my account wasn't banned to begin with. (No, I didn't have any alt accounts)
That's exactly what mine was for. I think it was around 2 years later that it was restored.
Nope
Ya. I just got a 7 day ban for telling people to go and train with their guns at shooting ranges just to get used to using them before the civil war starts.
Bulk deletion of your posts might remove useful information from the internet.
Well, maybe it’s now all saved to ChatGPT‘s faulty memory.
You think it’s worth it for me to do that if I haven’t been on Reddit since 2022?
bro you need to relax and touch some grass, fr fr.