A Secret Grand Jury Is Seeking the Identity of a Reddit User Who Criticized ICE
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Reddit itself has been subpoenaed by a secret Washington grand jury, with the government wanting to know the identity of a specific user.

Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

  • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.caEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    They want to prosecute peope in open court so using the NSA to id people would be inconvenient (but not impossible).

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      Exactly, known as parallel construction, they find a plausible way to have found what they illegally know to use it publicly.

    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      They’ve probably already ID’d them. Now they just need Reddit to “volunteer” the info that DickSwanger420 is actually Marvin Peterson from Boise.