US EditionReport: US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm to Grand Jury
Prosecutors seek about three months of data on a Reddit user as civil-liberties lawyers argue the posts are protected speech.
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Trump Administration Demands Reddit Reveal Identity of User Who Criticized ICE
Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images The Trump administration has ordered Reddit to provide personal information on one of its users who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement, The Intercept reported on Friday. Reddit has until April 14 to provide the data. Attorneys for the user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are clearly protected by the First Amendment. On March 4, an ICE agent in Fairfax, Virginia sent a…
A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE
It appears the Trump administration is taking its efforts to aggressively unmask anonymous online dissenters to the next level, through the use of a secretive grand jury inquiry with no publicly accessible records. According to new reporting from The Intercept, which obtained 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 a…
Feds Trying To Unmask Reddit Users Who Criticize ICE
Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of the Trump administration's effort to unmask online critics of the 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 mon…
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