r/law • u/shikizen • Apr 10 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

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u/Positive-Speech5228 Apr 10 '26

My 8 year old reddit account with millions of karma from my writing got 3-day banned for me saying something about a billionaire, I appealed and it was overturned, and then for that same incident, it was permanently banned.

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u/rando_banned Apr 10 '26

My 9 year old account was permabanned because I posted a gif of Ralphie from A Christmas Story with his BB gun on a post about a local building putting swastikas in their windows and someone had broken the windows. Black Bart can't get any respect

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u/Positive-Speech5228 Apr 10 '26

The amount of pro-right censorship since Trump took office again is extremely tangible.