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ggm
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or have reported the location of its agents. Google, Meta and Reddit have complied with some of the requests
webdoodle
They'll take the money and run as usual. If they don't then you know this IS the psyop.
antonvs
When these “administrative subpoenas” (a fancy term for polite request) are challenged in court, ICE tends to withdraw them, because they don’t want the legal precedent that says what they’re doing is illegal and un-American.

They should be forced to defend them, that might put a stop to this.

keernan
The bigger issue than the illegal use of the subpoena power, is the purpose behind why they are gathering this personal data about Americans.
josefritzishere
This is very 1984. The Illegal subpoenas are just as concerning as the illegal behavior of ICE, if not more so.
k310
Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? [0]

The TLDR:

    • Lawyers have been calling for the abolition of ICE for years, not because we oppose immigration enforcement, but because ICE as an institution is extremely unusual in American law

    • The legal mechanisms that define it are anomalous

    • And those legal anomalies carry real constitutional danger.
[0] https://youtu.be/zkgNnbTrsgw