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Posted on 04/11/2026 10:57:38 AM PDT by Coronal
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 request to Reddit seeking information on the user, referred to as John Doe. To compel compliance, ICE slapped the social media behemoth with an administrative subpoena, which does not require approval from a judge.
“Failure to comply with this summons will render you liable to proceedings in a U.S. District Court to enforce compliance with this summons as well as other sanctions,” the request stated. “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.”
The request sought a month’s worth of data on the user, but it did not specify what the agency found potentially actionable.
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It would be nice to know what exactly the user posted.
Death threats? Calls to violence?
If this is for real, it sets a bad precedent.
It’s true. Here’s the summons:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465800/gov.uscourts.cand.465800.1.2.pdf
No information on what the poster said, so he/she probably did more than ”criticize”.
Depends on what lead they are following up on. We’re not getting the whole story. There are way too many people “criticizing ICE” for that to be the whole reason. I suspect it may regard an investigation into funding sources for criminal groups or something similar. Can’t tell just from this, but the whole reason you can’t do financial transactions anonymously is because law enforcement always has the right/ability to investigate crimes.
I support online anonymity for First Amendment purposes, but i also support law enforcement being able to investigate potential crimes. In this case we don’t know what is being investigated or why, so we only have a small bit of the story.
Per the story.
“There was a thread from early January, after news outlets including The Intercept identified Jonathan Ross as the ICE officer who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis. Commenting on a Minnesota Star Tribune article, another Reddit user posted that Ross might be welcomed as a hero in Florida or Texas. John Doe responded by sharing that Ross had lived in Chaska, Minnesota; grew up in Indiana; and served in the Indiana National Guard — biographical details that were circulating widely at the time. “Hopefully he moves up to Stillwater State Penitentiary,” they wrote.
In another post, a Reddit user asked what they should write on an anti-ICE protest sign. John Doe suggested the lyrics to a song: “Urine speaks louder than words.” In a third instance, Doe wrote, “TSA sucks and we all know it.” According to the Reddit user’s attorneys, these were the most aggressive posts they could find.”
>>If this is for real, it sets a bad precedent.
it’s not “precedent” since Biden and Obama did the same thing first.
Reddit is an absolute cesspool of leftism run amok. The bottomfeeders thrive there because it’s a huge echo chamber.
The article says what the defendant’s lawyer claims to have found as the worst cases and they’re not threatening or violent. But then, what lawyer ever feels they have to be truthful these days?
Unless there’s something bigger that the lawyer is ignoring (or that the poster had deleted before letting the lawyer see it) it seems that the suspicion isn’t about the posts made but about something else they’re investigating. Could be that the claims about the history of the ICE agent being doxxed elsewhere tied this person to those doing the doxxing, which could also be tied into a bigger operation that included criminal acts.
I wonder what else didn’t happen
When the dems take over, they will be demanding the identity of anyone criticizing them.
If it’s a threat, go to a judge and get a warrant. If it’s just critical rhetoric... GFY.
This is a wrong move by Trump and the DOJ.
So? Doesn’t make right what DOJ is doing.
Reddit is one big leftwing nuthouse. That said, freedom of speech is protected. I suspect there is a lot more to the story. This person was probably making death threats or something else illegal.
If the poster threatened violence on an ICE agent the poster should be prosecuted. This BS has got to stop.
Per the story this was originally pursued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California. They withdrew their request, it was then resurrected in DC in Jeanine Pirro’s office.
I’m sure there’s much much more to the story that we’re not getting… But you know that. This is how our friends on the left operate. It’s what they DO NOT tell you that’s the real story.
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