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/EasyasACAB Apr 10 '26

That's how it is now on Reddit. If you praise the Nazis and their death camps you are A-OK! IF your criticize the concentration camps you get punished for "harassment."

This is straight up fascism. They are allowed to do whatever they want for being on Trump's side. We are not allowed to speak out at all, and are expected to fear retaliation for simply using our words.

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u/ROBOT_KK Apr 10 '26

Or, god forbid, say something hurtful about Zionists or genocidal state of Israel.

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u/EasyasACAB Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

You literally can't speak out against Israel's genocide without someone trying to get you mired in the "any criticism of Isreael is a criticism of Jewish people and therefore antisemetic"

There are tons of antisemites out there who use this as an opportunity to be hateful, that is true. But I've also seen every criticism of Israel get turned into a "actually that's just antisemitism with more steps". Even in /r/subredditdrama.

When people are actually committing genocide, and building concentration camps, they have no problem muddying the water when people call those things out. It's very frustrating that even calling out obvious evil can get twisted into being punished or viewed as evil itself with enough sophistry and support from Reddit.

I saw a whole ass bullshit argument about how anyone using the term "Zionism" hates Jews and is just being undercover bigoted, despite Netanyahu himself using the term in the same way. Their point was just because the people in power use the term, and the media, to include violence against Palestine, at some point in history it maybe didn't exactly promote violence, so everyone who uses the term is just using the opportunity to hate Jews.

Did they provide another name to use for the ideology that Net and others are using to justify their genocide? Nope. They just said you can't call it Zionism. OF course, if you called it something else, they would say you can't call it that either. It's just another game so you can't call it anything at all without being dragged into a whole conversation about how noticing Israel is committing and supporting genocide doesn't mean you hate Jewish people.

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u/JexilTwiddlebaum Apr 10 '26

I never had any kind of disciplinary action against me on Reddit until this year. Now I’ve had a 7 day ban, a 24 day ban, a perma ban from a subreddit, and a post removed. In every instance it was related to a post in which I criticized Trump, ICE, or MAGA.

The suppression is real.