- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don’t come from judges.
Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been distributing to Big Tech the past few months, according to an anonymously sourced New York Times report.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Who didn’t see this coming, after all the major players of the US digital industry were invited to the dinner with Trump? Honestly :D
This is the definition of economic fascism. They aren’t being squeezed by the government, they have lucrative contacts for openly sharing this info. The businesses and the us government are becoming one.
The fascists prototype this, the upper class take notes -
Every US based company is pretty much legally obliged to hand over everything, even if they collect data outside of US.
This is nothing new. New is, that this data is now getting abused at large scale.
Absolutely.
EVERY. U.S. COMPANY.
It used to be that courts would slow it down. But the Trump administration is showing that they don’t care about the law. How they have been weaponizing ICE, it’s pretty clear cut that they will use or abuse any tool to get their way.
Discord is just a start.
All the companies relying on Amazon and AWS will be compromised too. Which includes all the open-source software storing their backups on S3.
Obliged (with a court order), voluntarily surrendering this data is a capitulation to fascism
Yeah, that’s right. I guess they’re like “They’ll get court order anyway, so why should we even try to stop 'em”…
Edit: more likely they’re bootlickers of Lord Donald “The Orange” Trump and they probably hope to be in his favor.
GRAFAM users: well, I’m not concerned, so it’s alright 🤷
Or alternatively “But where else can I go???😭”
All those who are surprised, raise your hands.
*crickets*
I’m definitely on that list
Reddit, Meta, and Google are scumbags and not to be trusted.
All US tech should be questioned.
These are the companies sharing information that we KNOW of.
Pretty much applies to any even vaguely large company.
No doubt
