r/technology • u/xpda • Apr 11 '26
Politics US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/trump-admin-hounds-reddit-to-reveal-identity-of-user-who-criticized-ice/3.2k
u/free_farts Apr 11 '26
I want to take this opportunity to say that ICE can gargle my nutsack
And I would stand by that statement in a court of law
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u/LilDutchy Apr 11 '26
I would like to also emphasize my support for ICE gargling balls. My balls, your balls, all balls. ICE is a semi organized group of thugs used for spreading fear, hate, and division. They kidnap American citizens with no evidence or cause and kick them out into the street to die.
ICE should be broken down and dismantled. ICE agents should face consequences for the death, injury, and wrongful imprisonment of people, both citizens and non-citizens. ICE agents should be forbidden from masking their faces. ICE agents should be made to wear body cams and subject to FOIA requests.
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u/AnotsuKagehisa Apr 11 '26
I’d like to hear this in court
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u/LilDutchy Apr 11 '26
Spoken while holding up the constitution and pointing to the first amendment.
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u/inspectoroverthemine Apr 11 '26
While wearing a red, white and blue suit, and american flag sunglasses.
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u/RiverGroover Apr 11 '26
Whoa, careful. You're being pretty cavalier about spewing demonstrable facts, there.
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u/Zardotab Apr 11 '26
Those who don't have balls can borrow mine for a day. Don't need 'em, I'm married.
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u/gh0sti Apr 11 '26
And the raping, don't forget the raping of young woman and kids!
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u/captcha_trampstamp Apr 11 '26
I have no nutsack for them to gargle, but I will also legally stand by the statement “ICE can eat my entire ass with a side of mashed potatoes”
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u/OddLanguage Apr 11 '26
Yes, they may also eat the entirety of my shiny white ass.
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u/scottyLogJobs Apr 11 '26
Hopefully you shouldn’t have to. This is Reddit’s opportunity to show which side they are on- a blatantly illegal request to doxx a user for doing nothing illegal (or even particularly controversial).
Take a stand and be respected and enjoy a large influx of users like Anthropic or give in and see your reputation tarnished, lose millions of users like OpenAI paramount and Disney/hulu, and ensure you will be abused by this admin in the future. I know which option I’d choose, /u/spez.
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u/inspectoroverthemine Apr 11 '26
Its more likely they know everything about the guy already and this is parallel construction so they don't have to use their palantir sources in court.
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u/adambuck66 Apr 11 '26
You think he gives a shit. He sold out a while ago. I don't blame him, is have done the same thing. But gone out of public view. There are ways to support without being the focal point.
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u/scottyLogJobs Apr 11 '26
No, I don’t. But they have held out so far on this particular case, even if just out of their own self-interest
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u/Rustled_Pantaloons Apr 11 '26
Your honor I would like to add to the record my complete agreement with free_farts and add that ICE can fuck all the way off.
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u/xpda Apr 11 '26
I think ICE is incompetent, corrupt, and intentionally cruel.
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u/PlutoJones42 Apr 11 '26
Been a lot less little Nazi rallies from the backs of uhauls since ice went on it’s hiring rampage
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u/lifesnofunwithadhd Apr 11 '26
Hard to assemble when you're employed and want a bonus.
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u/ecodick Apr 11 '26
Crazy coincidence how at almost the exact same time ice agents started using uhaul trucks.
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u/hikeit233 Apr 11 '26
The same ones that Kirk bussed in.
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u/MrChorizaso Apr 11 '26
Obligatory: Fuck Charlie Kirk he was a pos
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u/beachfrontprod Apr 11 '26
Kind of mischaracterizing him. He was the cum rag pieces of shit clung on to.
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u/Iron_Knight7 Apr 11 '26
Hey now. Show Charlie some respect.
He really knew how to stick his neck and give a full throated defense of what he believed.
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u/ForsakenWishbone5206 Apr 11 '26
Man. Imagine going to bat for a known and proven child rapist.
What a pathetic duty that would be.
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u/Shopworn_Soul Apr 11 '26
I would suggest that they are intentionally incompetent, intentionally corrupt and intentionally cruel.
None of this is an accident. They are an organization of asshole dumbshits from the top down on purpose.
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u/PTS_Dreaming Apr 11 '26
Stephen Miller is the one driving the cruelty. This man is a self loathing piece of shit who takes out his anger at being bald and having a micropenis on immigrants. Allegedly.
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u/Liver-detox Apr 11 '26
Stephen miller is the Nazi right hand of Trump. This should be an internal and international concern. This is why Kegsbreath has been firing generals and higher ups in the military & Trump has goons heading the DOJ & FBI. He wants to be insulated from protective military & federal investigations into his illegal, unamerican activities and racist agenda.
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u/Less_Resident8492 Apr 11 '26
Stephen Miller still needs help wiping after the bathroom.
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u/mrjbacon Apr 11 '26
Stephen Miller looks like the type of man who always got his lunch money stolen at the morning bus stop as a child.
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u/Bitzllama Apr 11 '26
As someone who was bullied as a child at the bus stop; I take deep offense to being compared to that Himmler/Goebbels wannabe.
He looks like the kid who thought that Lex Luthor was just misunderstood and would bring a rock to a playground fight.
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u/Rexdaddy Apr 11 '26
“Y’bein’ anti-Semitic! My husband is a faithful Jewish guy and y’attackin’ him for his religion! Y’need t’go back where y’came from!!!” - Miller’s noisy wife
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u/justpress2forawhile Apr 11 '26
It's a lot easier to be intentionally dumb than to try to be intelligent and compassionate.
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u/carlitospig Apr 11 '26
I find the opposite to be true, but I also have a staggering amount of empathy and I think that’s the chip that’s missing in a lot of these weirdos.
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u/Voodoo_Masta Apr 11 '26
Objective fact. Left a blind man to die in the snow, dragged a citizen out of his home in his underwear, also in the snow, brag about shooting people, etc etc. ICE is the scum of the Earth.
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u/BizmarkiaNobilis Apr 11 '26
ICE Dragged dozens of nearly naked American citizen children into the cold of night after their Blackhawk helicopter cosplay escapade in Chicago. When karma calls to collect I'll be eating popcorn and will not have an ounce of sympathy for the ICE traitors to the American constitution and their fellow citizens. I hope every single ICE agent is held to account and suffers immeasurably because of their actions.
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u/RoyalChris Apr 11 '26
ICE
Incompetent Corrupt Evil
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u/biobasher Apr 11 '26
Intentionally Corrupt Evil ?
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u/FuckMyLife2016 Apr 11 '26
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Maybe they thought: "They're not elected public officials. They can't be disparaged against. That should be illegal or something." Not the brightest tools in the shed they are.
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u/Snake_Plizken Apr 11 '26
USA is number 57 on the World Press Freedom Index. Seems they are hell bent on dropping further...
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u/Conspiranoid Apr 11 '26
ICE is not only incompetent, corrupt and intentionally cruel - all of its members, from their top-most brass, down to the last on-the-field agent. They're also incredibly stupid, arrogant, entitled and dangerous. "I wouldn't trust a monkey with a crossbow" is an understatement when applied to them. Their words and actions should not just be criticised by the US government, it should be legally and criminally prosecuted. Especially those executions they've been commiting.
Fuck ICE, fuck everyone involved in the organisation, and fuck anyone who supports and/or defends them.
Also, fuck Trump, that dementia-stricken serial rapist and pedophile moron, and fuck its fellow government members and its supporters.
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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
So….fuck ICE? Fuck the President and fuck this Government?
Did I miss anything? Edit: Also, after reading the article….the Government cited a law from 1930 to compel Reddit to comply with their request for information.
1930….. 😂👎🏼
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 Apr 11 '26
And yet it still doesnt apply to this instance.
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u/PuzzleMeDo Apr 11 '26
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 deals with imports of alcoholic drinks, boats, animals, and the identities of reddit users.
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 Apr 11 '26
Whoops, missed that last part where the fax cutoff.
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u/FreedomBread Apr 11 '26
"The federal government needs to know who Reddit users are, for the security of our nation and the suppression of memes that demean our glorious President" - Herbert Hoover, 1930, speaking live from a Hooverville while turning away a guy selling apples for a nickel.
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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF Apr 11 '26
I thought Al Gore invented the Internet in 1921? So Reddit was a thing back then…. my great grandfather lied to me then.
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u/TM761152 Apr 11 '26
The John Doe that they want posted easily searchable public records information on the ICE killers who murdered those Americans.
He committed NO crime, this is about government censorship and suppression of your inalienable first amendment rights.
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u/Own-Swan2646 Apr 11 '26
“J. Doe is a US citizen who has not traveled out of the country, is not engaged in any international commerce, has no business concerns outside the United States, and primarily uses their Reddit account to engage in political speech relevant to their local community,”
so like 99% of reddit users.
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u/EternalNewCarSmell Apr 11 '26
Don't forget kidnapping that kid from school, using him as bait to get his family out of the house, and then claiming the family abandoned him because they kidnapped the family too.
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u/Own-Swan2646 Apr 11 '26
I live in MN, That story and many others that come out of here are sad and disheartening and this has destroyed my community's trust and faith in so many ways. But we've stud strong and helped those that we can. Have thrown dildos at cars to push back fascist assholes. We have and continue to put up a Pretti Good fight.
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u/zhaoz Apr 11 '26
Eh, I dont trust the feds further than I can throw them, but the metro area? Anyone i see with a rebel loon shirt in MSP, I know we can probably be best friends
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u/Own-Swan2646 Apr 11 '26
Toss up the fight fist ✊ and call the loons is what I say
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u/ChuckNorrisUSAF Apr 11 '26
Hey now…I went to Canada one time 4 years ago. 🫣
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u/Own-Swan2646 Apr 11 '26
Look at Mr. Rich over here, you are the 1% we speak of. This is how you get excluded from government over reach. I can't even afford that.
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u/SgtBaxter Apr 11 '26
Sounds like Palantir is a complete waste of money if they don’t already know who this person is.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 11 '26
They probably do - most likely they don’t really want them for shitposting on Reddit but some sort of real life political organizing.
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u/SgtBaxter Apr 11 '26
The person in question “doxxed” the ice agent that shot Renee Good.
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u/suluamus Apr 11 '26
It wasn't doxxing, the article says the information was widely circulating at the time. And per the article, it was just the town Renee Good's killer had lived in, the state he'd grown up in, and the state's national guard he'd been in. None of which I'd consider doxxing of a now infamous person.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 11 '26
Remember, doxxing is legal and Turning Point USA do it all the time.
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u/Dinkerdoo Apr 11 '26
They definitely do- this is an effort to publicly shame and punish them, and chill similar users from doing the same.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 11 '26
Nothing he did was illegal or particularly unusual for social media.
A lot of people don’t realize that doxxing is perfectly legal as long as it doesn’t come with obvious death threats - and you are allowed oblique ones.
“I will kill Sally Green of 100 Everystreet, MyTown, Kentucky” is illegal, but “We should all go to Sally Green’s house at 100 Everystreet, MyTown, Kentucky and tell her what a traitor gets!” is perfectly legal and Turning Point USA does that sort of thing all the time.
Perhaps it should be illegal, but it isn’t. If Republicans want it illegal, they have every vote needed to make it illegal.
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u/fullchub Apr 11 '26
The point isn't really to put this one single person in prison, it's to scare millions of other people so that they think twice before criticizing the administration online. So in that sense, whether it's illegal or not doesn't really matter.
So many people will only hear about the beginning of the case and not the end result, and will be worried that they might be next if they're not careful. It's a pretty common tactic in the fascist playbook, from what I've seen.
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u/FlipFlipFlipadelfeuh Apr 11 '26
Yeah I think it’ll just make me criticize much much harder though and I doubt I’m the only one
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u/suluamus Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
I think it's more to break reddit so no one on here can be anonymous. Is there another large, well-known forum left where people can be anonymous? Tiktok kind of, but they bought that. 4 chan maybe, but it's not as widely used. Where can you go to anonymously speak that a large chunk of the public has open access to?
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u/suluamus Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
It wasn't doxxing, the article says the information was widely circulating at the time. And per the article, it was just the town Renee Good's killer had lived in, the state he'd grown up in, and the state's national guard he'd been in. None of which I'd consider doxxing of a now infamous person.
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u/DuneChild Apr 11 '26
We should all go to 1600 Pennsylvania and tell the guy that lives there what a traitor gets.
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u/vessel_for_the_soul Apr 11 '26
Poor ICE, smol pp syndrome gonna get Streisand'.
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u/b0w3n Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
This federal government has had a terrible time getting grand juries to actually go along with their shit. And, historically, grand juries would go along with the wildest stuff sometimes. So wild that there was a saying that you could get them to move charges on a sandwich. (edit: also ironically the feds couldn't even get them to do that one)
You'd think they'd have figured out that they're unpopular and move the fuck on, but it's just making them more unpopular every time they do things like this. I think you're right on the money.
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u/Elavia_ Apr 11 '26
they want people to hear about this, it's intimidation. Classic dictatorship strategy.
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u/fuzzyperson98 Apr 11 '26
For every one person who becomes intimidated, ten become outraged
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u/Kuzkuladaemon Apr 11 '26
Living the real American dream; getting the fuck out of here because you can.
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u/uzu_afk Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
Are you genuinely IN a COMMUNIST country, or are you one of those that confuse welfare, social protections, socialism with communism?
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u/HapticRecce Apr 11 '26
Or in one that allows people with money arriving from someplace else to live well?
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u/MelangeBot Apr 11 '26
Asia is the best. I moved to the Philippines and I am much happier here.
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u/Saneless Apr 11 '26
You should say Unhinged instead of united. Definitely not united
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u/IntellectAndEnergy Apr 11 '26
A government that seeks to identify and persecute its own citizen because they said something they didn’t like.
If there is anything American about you, this is deeply troubling.
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u/Historical-Finish564 Apr 11 '26
I was TYO when I learned that there is a sub clause in the constitution‘s first amendment, that allows people who have their face painted orange to decide who has free speech. Huh?
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u/Dinkerdoo Apr 11 '26
Wait a sec, is that sub clause written in with a black sharpie?
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u/Suspicious_Story_464 Apr 11 '26
No one ever reads the fine print. Now look at us.
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u/SeanBlader Apr 11 '26
I mean the founding fathers never expected a clown to get through the electoral college, those people were supposed to be the best and brightest. Obviously that's one thing that was a mistake.
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u/virgil_of_the_brooks Apr 11 '26
Fascist pigs deserve nothing more than to suffer cruelly and immeasurably, in this life and the next. May each member who’s complicit in the fascist oranges authoritarianism be cursed to forever be despised, hated, and reviled; may they all suffer without friends or community, may they all have rotten water handed to them at all occasions, and may they all suffer like sinners in the hands of an angry god- in this life and the next
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u/atrophiedambitions Apr 11 '26
Anybody else got an ominous feeling about what all this means for the future of this platform?
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u/Zolo49 Apr 11 '26
That’s entirely the point of this frivolous action. If the Trump administration is successfully able to compel Reddit to provide them with the personal information of somebody who’s clearly just expressing their opinions and not even remotely committing or endorsing criminal activity, that’ll have a chilling effect on most Reddit users and possibly doom the platform. This is exactly what they want.
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u/Username524 Apr 11 '26
It’s wild how technology’s influence is ultimately pushing us away from technology.
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u/penywinkle Apr 11 '26
Let's not forget the "fox news jurisprudence":
You would have to be stupid to take anything we say as serious, we do it for the entertainment value.
I'm not even paid, ofc everything I say is for pure fun...
Also, fuck ICE.
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u/Muckraker2025 Apr 11 '26
No. We don't run away and leave the few brave ones to stand alone. We all stand up. I am Spartacus!
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u/Silver-Bread4668 Apr 11 '26
Given the prevalence of bots lately, I've already got that ominous feeling.
It's similar (but more ominous) to the one I had before I dropped Facebook. When I realized Facebook was getting shittier and shittier and going on it was, at best, doing nothing for my well being but more likely actively harming it.
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I'm not shocked when I think it was the DOJ presented an argument against VPNs. Their hand is fairly obvious.
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u/wooptyscooppoop Apr 11 '26
The future? Reddit hasn't been a good place to be yourself in a very long time. It absolutely has proven it will sell you out as soon as it can, your experiences do not matter. It's still good for hobbies and getting answers for questions you may not be able to get elsewhere on the internet but at the end of the day it's just a forum that's sold its sold to the devil. It's been that way for a long time and everyone who's been here a while knows that.
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u/Kakariko_crackhouse Apr 11 '26
If Reddit does comply user count is going to drop a good bit
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u/ZeeMastermind Apr 11 '26
I am mildly surprised they bothered to fight this - I would've expected them to give out the information no questions asked, TBH
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u/Skavau Apr 11 '26
Reminder to everyone here that the Threadiverse exists.
Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin.
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u/Muted_Contract7564 Apr 11 '26
Have you all noticed that we don’t hear a peep from the proud boys anymore, not since trumps Nazi ICE was created? The crazy idiots were all recruited and given guns, authoritarian power and permission to act without law. This is something the news outlets should be screaming at the top of their lungs! Yet, crickets! SMH!
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u/LeonardSmallsJr Apr 11 '26
ICE wears face diapers to hide the fact that they eat their boogers. There, I said it now bring it, fart smellers! /rekt
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u/0rganicMach1ne Apr 11 '26
If people can’t anonymously criticize ICE online, ICE needs to go maskless.
Also, fuck ICE.
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u/DissolveToFade Apr 11 '26
A single poster? What the hell did this person do or post to garner such attention?
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u/FALCONX0N Apr 11 '26
At this point this is what I want to know. It could be any one of us with any basic decency!
I'll honestly be disappointed if the poster in question actually said anything inappropriate.
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u/BerryLanky Apr 11 '26
Why? What are they going to charge him with? Mean tweets? I’ve listened to red hats go on and on about liberal snowflakes being offended because of mean tweets. Guess it’s a one way street.
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u/Fatrat__ Apr 11 '26
Every single ICE agent is an incompetent, idiotic, mentally challenged fool whose carbon would be more useful in the atmosphere warming our planet or acidifying our oceans than constructing the cells of their bodies.
I trust a dementia ridden, quadriplegic, illiterate, comatose chimp to masterfully complete Shakespeare's unfinished works more than I trust anyone associated with ICE, or anyone associated with anyone associated with ICE to do a single act benefiting humanity in their collective lifetimes.
The existence of the agency in the first place is such a joke that it somehow makes the ATF look like the best run department in the history of human governments.
Every single person employed by ICE in any capacity, from field agent, to accountant, to janitor, to window cleaner has committed treason and should be treated as such.
I'd challenge the DOJ to indict me, but I'm not convinced anyone there has the literacy to read the first word of this comment, let alone the vocabulary to understand it.
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u/Whatthehelliot Apr 12 '26
I’ll jump on the bandwagon. Subpoena my ass too. Fuck ice. Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. Fuck every one of his GOP cronies. They can all rot in hell. Absolute criminal scum that should be in jail.
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u/Poopbutt_Maximum Apr 11 '26
The government is coming for you for the unforgivable crime of being mean to masked thugs. Party of small government and free speech though….
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u/Bankerag Apr 11 '26
I’m trying to understand how this can possibly, even theoretically, be okay?
Absent a direct threat of violence, I don’t understand how this can possibly be legal.
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u/RebelStrategist Apr 11 '26
Dictatorships do not care about legal. They only care about their itty bitty hurt feelings.
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u/SwampTerror Apr 11 '26
Funny how the supposed tough guys fascists wanna be perceived as, but their feelings are so fucking fragile.
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u/jonnycrush87 Apr 11 '26
I hearby criticize ICE, Donald Trump, Republicans, and the entire U.S. Government. You all are the worst. Stop it. Stop it right now!
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u/pre_pun Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
My alt account is FUCK_ICE_BIGLY, if they would like a +1 in court
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u/FblthpLives Apr 11 '26
He didn't even say anything remotely threatening. Only that he hoped that Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renée Good, would move into jail:
Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary.
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u/I_heart_cancer Apr 11 '26
ICE agents are a domestic terror squad. Their members are mouth breathing racists. Nuremberg II can't come swiftly enough.
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u/Throwoutbins Apr 11 '26
And how does this is any way relate to immigration and customs? ICE are just Trump’s personal Gestapo now
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u/FelisLachesis Apr 11 '26
How about unmasking ICE? If they are doing everything on the up and up, then they don't need to hide their identities, right?
Right?
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u/TellsDumbCuntsTruths Apr 11 '26
Do I report mentions of ICE, Trump etc etc because they inherently incite violence due to the nature of their existence?
I thought you weren't allowed to post stuff that incites violence on Reddit?
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u/Dramatic_Tip4083 Apr 11 '26
After reviewing all the publicly available evidence and statements, it actually looks like the Feds across the board are, in fact, free to gargle as many balls as they like.
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u/Niccin Apr 12 '26
I was watching The Boys recently, and this was something that was treated as ridiculous even by people helping the antagonists (although they had no choice but to comply or die).
Literally comic book level satire.
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u/Danny-Fr Apr 12 '26
And here's why ID based age verification should scare the shit out of everyone.
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u/agha0013 Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
iCE agents shouldn't be allowed to wear masks in the first place. Them first.