Good god the title is very misleading. The grand jury hearing isn't until April 14. It's still chilling that the administration will go to these lengths to apparently silence criticism, but I'm not convinced there is more to this story. Although the reddit user in question is enlisting a civil liberties group to represent him, I'm thinking he/she may not be a terrorist mastermind who is a danger to the American people.

Actual title:

A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE

It's completely unclear what illegal thing the user is supposed to have done, other than dislike ICE.

ah pedonald trying to scare people. fuck him with a retractable baton.

Fuck ICE

They can't fucking WAIT until this ID verification goes through. Literally frothing at the mouth for it.

This is a reminder to everyone. If you or someone you know is still on Reddit. Use an extension to bulk deleted everything before deleting the account. You're friends and family are not safe posting on reddit.

They've had difficulty convincing grand juries to indict in other sketchy cases. I have to wonder what super secret group of totally-not-ICE-officials this was approved by.

The most absurd part of this is their inability to dox someone for a month. Give a handful of bored nerds any motivation and they'd have it figured out in a day or two.

Go figure. Reddit really has tanked

Today is a good day to use Lemmy.

i heard its a "secret grand jury" whatever that means, probably chosen only jurors that would vote in thier favors, aka literally choosing biased jurors. since reddit is half or more as bots, it will be funny if they only found its a bot from another country. i have a hunch that reddit does not reveal thier bot activities, or how they are allowing them.

So, the rule is very old already, actually: You can't criticize ICE on Reddit if you're an American citizen, because of this. And you can't criticize ICE, Israel, Trump and etc. on Reddit even if you're are not the USA citizen - because of bans on platform.

OP's headline does not match the article linked in any way. I don't know if the site changed the article or what, but the Grand Jury has not ordered Reddit to turn over any data.

a subpoena issued by federal prosecutors to the management of Reddit, representatives of the site have been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington D.C., with an April 14 deadline set in an attempt to compel Reddit to volunteer personal data and the identity of a user who had the temerity to lightly criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the platform.

Essentially, they have ordered Reddit to send representatives to be badgered into volunteering the user's information.

I heard the heavier ones love it when you call them ICEburgs

The masses are fucking morons and a threat to anyone trying to actually improve anything. Don't hold your breath for them to abandon their dopamine dispensers.

Just pull the Faux Nooz defense. No sane person would take me seriously.

OR follow your orange leader's example of "can't you take a joke?"

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.