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D.C. Grand Jury Orders Reddit to Turn Over Data on Anonymous ICE Critic (www.jezebel.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I am no fan of reddit but in this case Reddit appears to have championed this users anonymity going so far as to actively draw the ire of the administration.

  • Reddit refused to comply with the initial administrative subpoena
  • the Federal government came back with this grand jury subpoena and warned Reddit not to disclose the existence of the subpoena or they’d consider it interference in federal law enforcement
  • Reddit complied with this new legally binding subpoena, but did not comply with the demand to keep it a secret. In the contrary, they immediately alerted the user of the subpoena which allowed him time to immediately lawyer up.

You’re not wrong that you’re not safe posting on Reddit, but if this case is any indication you’re not any less safe posting in Reddit than any other site, including Lemmy.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You’re not wrong that you’re not safe posting on Reddit, but if this case is any indication you’re not any less safe posting in Reddit than any other site, including Lemmy.

You can choose the location (and thus legal jurisdiction) of your home instance, but yeah, in general, I think that people need to be aware that server operators on the Threadiverse are probably not going to fight legal battles on your behalf.

We had someone ask about turning over IP addresses to law enforcement a while back on lemmy.today. The lemmy.today server admin gave what I'd call probably a pretty accurate answer.

https://lemmy.today/post/7255213

How will Lemmy Today handle IP subpoenas?

Lemmy instances are run by volunteers who wants to see a social media network without big tech.

I dont think you can trust any of those volunteers, including this one, to not comply with law enforcement. Thats not why we are running instances. Its about providing a platform without tracking, ads and algorithms for talking to other people and having a good time.

Hope that makes sense.

Use a VPN if you have a reason to. :)

It linked to a similar question for lemmy.dbzer0.com:

How will dbzer0 handle IP subpoenas?

Don’t know man. I’m not making enough in donations to pay for the server costs, never mind hiring lawyers. I’ll deal with this when I have to 😅

There are platforms more-aimed at providing harder pseudonymity. I'd put Hyphanet fairly high on the list of "technically a pain in the ass to track a poster down" list (though that comes with very real performance and latency and suchlike costs).

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To answer for Quokk.au. If I had to, I’d delete the instance and all data before ever handing anything over. They can take me to court if need be.

[–] audit69@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

gary web sh()t himself in the hed 2 times

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

harder to make a international site comply though

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Only if that country doesn’t have info sharing treaties with the US. So much of Europe isn’t any safer than in the US.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t Reddit owned by China? WTF is Trump going to do?

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit is owned by Vanguard, Blackrock, JP Morgan, etc

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You'd really think they could afford hiring some moderators.