A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE
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Reddit itself has been subpoenaed by a secret Washington grand jury, with the government wanting to know the identity of a specific user.

Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

  • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    8 hours ago

    Mods on Lemmy are at least as ban happy than those on Reddit. Appeals? They don’t exist at all. At least you can easily make a new account on different instance on Lemmy. Reddit has strong enforcement of also banning all accounts they can link to yours with cookie and IP.

    Lemmy admins are likely to comply with local law enforcement as well, if they have to. So far it’s just untested because of irrelevance.

    • Rage4You@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 hours ago

      Lemmy is self hosted and most people would for sure handover whatever they could if the feds just asked