DC is hoping a grand jury will order .
Fuck these nazis
I doubt an anonymous ICE critic would be criticizing ICE without using a VPN.
I find it reassuring that the government is at least acting like they can't identify this user without Reddit's consent. I wonder why this charade is necessary; are they trying to set a legal precedent?
They are doing a parallel construction so they can publicly make accusations. It's not reassuring I assure you.
They want to intimidate people, imho.
They want to prosecute peope in open court so using the NSA to id people would be inconvenient (but not impossible).
Exactly, known as parallel construction, they find a plausible way to have found what they illegally know to use it publicly.
They've probably already ID'd them. Now they just need Reddit to "volunteer" the info that DickSwanger420 is actually Marvin Peterson from Boise.
Why would they be acting? It’s probably not a first amendment test.
OP's headline does not match the article linked in any way. I don't know if the site changed the article or what, but the Grand Jury has not ordered Reddit to turn over any data.
a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors to the management of Reddit, representatives of the site have been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington D.C., with an April 14 deadline set in an attempt to compel Reddit to volunteer personal data and the identity of a user who had the temerity to lightly criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the platform.
Essentially, they have ordered Reddit to send representatives to be badgered into volunteering the user's information.
No, it's not volunteering, at least not anymore.
Subpoena is legal Latin for "under penalty," because noncompliance with a subpoena carries a penalty.
Originally, it was an information request from the feds, and Reddit refused. Then they escalated to getting a grand jury subpoena (which means they got a bunch of normal citizens to agree that the information was relevant to a criminal investigation), so now noncompliance carries a penalty.
Reddit notified the users, who hired their own lawyers, who are resisting the subpoena and will litigate it to where they need a judge to decide whether Reddit will have to turn the information over.
That's the process for these things, and we're a couple steps in already.
So they are using a form of harassment? Get them to look at the cost of sending someone vs just betraying one user. Of course the blowback as reddit shows it would betray your anonymity could be a pr disaster.
If the article is correct then the whole demand is truly bizarre. There seems to be nothing in the reddit user's postings to warrant this amount of concern. The fact that his comments are innocuous may be to set a precedent that any criticism, regardless of severity, can be prosecuted or at least intimidation.
These kinds of posts and titles on Lemmy are a serious issue that I've noticed over the last 6 to 7 months.
There appears to be a serious issue with moderation and a lot of Lemmy subs.
I'm not calling for any Reddit styled moderation here. Absolutely not. I'm just saying something needs to happen here to better moderate these subs.
Some communities have bots that check post title and article title match, if not the post is auto-removed. Happened to me a while back when I simply tried to shorten a really long title.
IMO this bot should be mandatory for all communities
Maybe mods should be subject to review by members.
One thing I love about eBay is that buyers can also be rated by sellers.
That single handedly resolved many issues.
I'm just saying... You're right.
It's really easy for one of the mods in this community to make the op fix the headline or remove the post. Did anyone report it?
Isnt it up to the readers of the article to notice and upvote things like this? Lemmy is just a link aggregator. Mods dont read every post. I bet almost everyone has a full time job or student life too.
Report it and upvote the problem and it will be fixed by a mod eventually, and readers will be aware until that happens.
The headline is wrong. No decision has been made yet.
Why not worry about the pedo in the white house instead? Deport him and his entire family to the middle of the atlantic.
Good god the title is very misleading. The grand jury hearing isn't until April 14. It's still chilling that the administration will go to these lengths to apparently silence criticism, but I'm not convinced there is more to this story. Although the reddit user in question is enlisting a civil liberties group to represent him, I'm thinking he/she may not be a terrorist mastermind who is a danger to the American people.
I remember when reddit first got popular and the demise of Digg
I feel like we're watching the demise or reddit now
The place is nothing but bots, they allow loser power tripping mods to ban you willy nilly with basically no appeal process. And now they're gonna give you up to the govt
I'm sure shareholders are super stoked right now
Now? It died in 2023 or whenever the API debacle happened. Even before that it was pretty botty.
ah pedonald trying to scare people. fuck him with a retractable baton.
Actual title:
A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE
It's completely unclear what illegal thing the user is supposed to have done, other than dislike ICE.
there goes "their freedom of speech", hypocrites
They can't fucking WAIT until this ID verification goes through. Literally frothing at the mouth for it.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
