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The Department of Homeland Security is pushing Silicon Valley to strip anonymity from Americans who track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agency has fired off hundreds of subpoenas demanding names, email addresses, and phone numbers tied to anti-ICE social media accounts, the New York Times reported Friday.

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued. Instead of seeking court authorization first, DHS can sign and send the demands directly to tech companies—a power civil liberties advocates say is now being deployed far more aggressively.

Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord received subpoenas targeting anonymous accounts that posted about ICE activity, the Times reported.

Archive report: https://archive.is/QW78b#selection-723.0-731.17

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Unlike traditional warrants, administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued.

Remember 9/11. Never forget, right?

This is where the creation of a department to "secure" our "homeland", and laws like the "patriot" act where always going to lead. This is where selling off your rights and freedoms for a false sense of security was always going to lead.

Don't worry, it'll get much worse.

[-] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago

My firm helps keep a good percentage of this country's shitty infrastructure from collapsing and the budgets these projects are working under are laughable. But that's ok. I sleep better at night knowing we're spending all our money on Palantir instead.

[-] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look, if we fix the bridges, roads, ATC towers, staff them, nationalize the toll roads, inspect the gas pipelines, replace the lead pipes, reform the corn subsidies, schools, fire stations, rural hospitals, nursing shortage, elder care, vaccine crisis, citizens united, dark money, and pedophile ring then what will the Democrats run on next year huh?

With the Buc-ee's avatar I'm assuming you're around TX. Holy shit, I used to weld in the oil patch. I tell you what. You've never seen crumbling infra until you've watch em hook up a 2 million dollar primary stage HRSG to a pipe that got laid in 1922... It was literally leaking out of the pores of the pipe.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Modernizing the electric grid and fast tracking the development and adoption of sources of clean energy?

Nah! That's crazy talk. It's not like other countries like – I dunno – China, have done that recently.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The people in charge are the same group that pulled solar panels off the roof of the White House in 1986. This has been going on a long time.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/the-forgotten-story-of-jimmy-carters-white-house-solar-panels/

I mean, that's been on the platform for over a decade. Not a lot has come of it. If they'd actually built up any of this into the power grid, it wouldn't be something the right wing oil and gas lobbyists could politicize.

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It might get better just before the next election ...

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 36 points 2 days ago

administrative subpoenas do not require approval from a judge before they are issued

WTF is the point of warrants if we just don't need them?

[-] Attacker94@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You've got to love the patriot act

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

The Patriot Act was sunset years ago

[-] Attacker94@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

From preliminary checking I would have to agree with you, but the only sources I could find said that the clauses that were explicitly sun set clauses have since lapsed, I see no mention of what clauses still remain, does anyone have a source for the original text?

[-] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

So many lawsuits against the government incoming

[-] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Those lawsuits work only short term

Quickest way to kill your app, service, site, instance

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