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52. My understanding is that

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:20 PM

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law enforcement agencies at various levels in the US routinely purchase or demand and get info from all the major social media platforms.

Given how reliant we've become on 'net-based communications from social media to email to cell phone calls, imho the Supreme Court made a grave error when it held that searched of those communications –– unlike those via the USPS and land line telephones –– would not require warrants.

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Trump Administration Demands Reddit Reveal Identity of User Who Criticized ICE [View all] BumRushDaShow Apr 11 OP

So they know this won't hold up in front of a judge Walleye Apr 11 #1

Yes, it's yet another intimidation ploy MuchBetterThanThis Apr 11 #7

Definitely. All I see here is mob, strong arm tactics. Walleye Apr 11 #8

Exactly. paleotn Apr 11 #13

They make the Mafia look honest COL Mustard Apr 11 #22

The point is not the courts. It is a mob tactic to shut down criticism by using threats. Irish_Dem Apr 11 #28

I'm hoping eventually, they will get tired of being pushed around Walleye Apr 11 #44

So far, no one seems tired of being threatened, bullied, harassed. Irish_Dem Apr 11 #47

I know I don't really understand my fellow Americans here. I used to feel a kinship with them Walleye Apr 11 #48

Will the now-corporate Reddit folks comply with a baseless request? Soul_of_Wit Apr 11 #40

If they do, they'll lose about 90 percent of their members. Pinback Apr 11 #49

Agreed, and that would be a crying shame. ShazzieB Apr 11 #55

Reddit has cleaned up its act quite a lot in recent years. Pinback Apr 11 #68

Yes it will angrychair Apr 11 #46

They'll come for DUers one day IronLionZion Apr 11 #2

Perhaps I should stop telling people displacedvermoter Apr 11 #6

How can he have syphilis if a simple penicillin shot would have cured him? FakeNoose Apr 11 #10

I believe in miracles? displacedvermoter Apr 11 #12

That's what they said about gonorrhea, but.... Tanuki Apr 11 #21

Are you an Md? n/t. SonOfNebanaube Apr 11 #51

No MD is needed to know how silly this rumor is. ShazzieB Apr 11 #63

Exactly! ShazzieB Apr 11 #56

What do you do every time you see a mention of Trump's syphilis? displacedvermoter Apr 11 #57

What do I think when I see a mention of this rumor? ShazzieB Apr 13 #72

They'd like to but you give them far more power and good sense then they have. paleotn Apr 11 #14

First they came for the reddit users, popsdenver Apr 11 #39

Yikes! calimary Apr 12 #71

We all do! Linda ladeewolf Apr 11 #3

Reddit?! Seriously?! Collimator Apr 11 #4

I don't get Reddit but apparently a lot of people do. underpants Apr 11 #33

Reddit hosts a ton of progressive groups TommyT139 Apr 11 #41

"You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. eShirl Apr 11 #5

MAGA are a pathetic caricature of fascists IronLionZion Apr 11 #9

MAGA is just about 80% or more kabuki. It is all made up in the cyber world of Musk, Twitter, X, and web .. Botany Apr 11 #20

MAGA Kabuki IronLionZion Apr 11 #65

The work of "para-lawyers" paleotn Apr 11 #15

Only 2 lawyers? Attilatheblond Apr 11 #50

Hell...tell that guy to start a Go Fund Me and see how long it takes Bengus81 Apr 11 #60

I"m imagining lawyers in parachutes IronLionZion Apr 11 #64

Lol!! It's a line from Danny DeVito in The Rainmaker. paleotn Apr 11 #66

"Don't tell anyone" - isn't that what child abusers say to the kids? Talitha Apr 11 #31

Hey ICE orangecrush Apr 11 #11

No I am Sparticus. Prairie_Seagull Apr 11 #37

FUCK ICE! orangecrush Apr 11 #42

I'm Spartacus! DBoon Apr 11 #45

And the Epstein files were ordered to be released by a court of law. travelingthrulife Apr 11 #16

I confess, it was me. twodogsbarking Apr 11 #17

I am Spartacus. COL Mustard Apr 11 #23

How ya doin? Good I hope. twodogsbarking Apr 11 #24

... BumRushDaShow Apr 11 #29

Lots of Spartacus here IronLionZion Apr 11 #32

We will all be Earl! Bayard Apr 11 #38

It is meant to scare us into silence. Get louder. travelingthrulife Apr 11 #18

Dude, nearly everyone in the world is critisizing ICE. Try to keep up old man. twodogsbarking Apr 11 #19

It's a public matter. When you work in the public sector, you live in a fish bowl underpants Apr 11 #35

More of that Administrative BS that does not require approval of a judge. Ziggysmom Apr 11 #25

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Apr 11 #26

Designed to specifically shut down internet criticism of the Trump Crime Syndicate. Irish_Dem Apr 11 #27

will impede the investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law GreenWave Apr 11 #30

Where are the supposed libertarian types on the right like Rand Paul? SamuelAdams Apr 11 #34

We are now in full on fascist mode.... Joinfortmill Apr 11 #36

It was me, I'll be waiting ouija Apr 11 #43

My understanding is that snot Apr 11 #52

I think they should... kerouac2 Apr 11 #53

And they said we were exaggerating. enigmania Apr 11 #54

Our Government is our enemy people bluestarone Apr 11 #58

Hey MSM,can we use the name HITLER yet?? Nope,not yet? Not enought PROOF? Bengus81 Apr 11 #59

"I am Spartacus!" NM Grins Apr 11 #61

DU'er Demands Trump Reveal Identity of All His Cohorts in the Trump-Epstein sex, blackmail and money-laundering empire. usonian Apr 11 #62

There are thousands who criticize ICE. AllyCat Apr 11 #67

So still trying to revoke our free speech?? vapor2 Apr 12 #69

FU Trump!! 🖕🏾🖕🏾💩 signed, Spartacus RainCaster Apr 12 #70