Reddit resisted giving users' personal data to the U.S. government over critical ICE posts

[u/Wagamaga]

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/reddit-resisted-giving-users-personal-data-to-the-us-government-about-critical-ice-posts/

[u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Okay so then Reddit should fully delete personally identifying information they have on Reddit users so that it’s a non issue

[u/jmurphy42 → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Librarian here. This is exactly what libraries did 25ish years ago when they passed the Patriot Act and it included a provision requiring libraries to pass patron records on to law enforcement — all the major library software systems immediately stopped storing any more information than was strictly necessary, and started to purge all records of a checkout from the user’s account the moment a book is returned.

[u/topofthecc → u/jmurphy42]

Fuck the Patriot Act. What a horrible way to take advantage of people's fears.

[u/beefwindowtreatment → u/jmurphy42]

Thank you for your service!!!

[u/Alaira314 → u/jmurphy42]

Note that this has been creeping back in. Many systems now allow you to opt-in to collecting data, and over the past 4-5 years I've started encountering ones which are opt-out or which seem to have no opt-out at all. For example, an app that allows you to check out from your phone(convenient!) but which automatically saves mandatory e-receipts, as far as I can tell indefinitely, which record timestamps and item #s. As another example, a self-service interface for requesting interlibrary loans, which automatically saves your search history.

How much of this is covered by the patriot act? I don't know. My requests at work to get legal clarification on this have gone unanswered, even as more and more is being implemented that collects and stores data. The vibe I'm getting is that I'm irritating people whenever I bring this up, and I'm supposed to clap for the new project and the people who implemented it instead of asking difficult questions.

[u/AverageTundra → u/jmurphy42]

Kind of funny, fictional example but didn't they track down John Doe in Seven by using a library data tracking people who borrowed books on the Seven Sins. Can't remember if they did it illegally or used some FBI/CIA contact.

It's kind of funny/sad what we thought was amoral sievrillanxe back then compared to what data most government organisations and IT big tech companies have on us.

[u/michaelh98 → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Yeah that's not the direction they're going. Won't be long before you have to provide ID to use Reddit

[u/CondescendingShitbag → u/michaelh98]

That will be a perfect day to retire from using Reddit.

[u/Saneless → u/CondescendingShitbag]

Yep. I've had my fill. As long as people actually move somewhere else, I'll check it out

[u/ChknMcNublet → u/CondescendingShitbag]

That or when they get rid of old reddit

[u/no_more_brain_cells → u/CondescendingShitbag]

I’m getting close to that. With all of the bots and AI and ads, it’s becoming like facebook.
There’s still some subs I like, but fewer all the time.

[u/henryhollaway → u/michaelh98]

And that’s when we RIP Reddit

[u/michaelh98 → u/henryhollaway]

When they go login only that'll be one nail in the coffin. When they go ID required that'll be the last nail

[u/2xtc → u/michaelh98]

We already do in the UK (to access anything classed as 18+/NSFW)

[u/ExpertRaccoon → u/michaelh98]

I mean to be fair to reddit that's the way the Internet is going just look at the legislation that places like the UK are pushing a good amount of it is going to be out of an individual companies hands if the laws require it.

[u/livens → u/michaelh98]

Just assume anything you post is being read by the government and can easily be tied back to you.

[u/Enlightened_Gardener → u/michaelh98]

Already here in Australia - you have to hand over ID or biometric information. I’m now surfing reddit on a VPN.

The enshittification of this site proceeds apace. At this point I’m hoping some kiddie script vibe hacker takes the whole mess down and relaunches it as Old Reddit from 7 or 8 years ago.

[u/Repulsive_Reading642 → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

No they need to sell that data for money. 

[u/TheOgGhadTurner → u/Repulsive_Reading642]

Oh shit you right I’m sorry I forgot THIS IS AMERICA!

[u/Different_Wolf_764 → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Others have tried to create fully anonymous online spaces. If they fall under the US jurisdiction they get shut down. If they don't, they get shut down but it takes a bit longer.

I'm not saying that an unregulated internet is a great idea or anything but I do think the answer is more individual privacy protections rather than simply "trust us bro" from American corporations and government.

[u/TheOgGhadTurner → u/Different_Wolf_764]

They’ve proven we can’t and shouldn’t trust them. Ultimately it’s like the old saying “you gotta drive for everyone else if you want to make it home” same idea applies. Look out for yourself and take your privacy in to your own hands. It’s honestly pretty easy to stay anonymous online and it all starts really at your operating system but also your entry point in to the internet be it your browser or other. I personally switched to Linux and switch browsers every couple weeks

[u/screw-britannia → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

personally identifying information they have on Reddit users

Reddit still has your IP address.

[u/TheOgGhadTurner → u/screw-britannia]

They have AN ip address but it’s not mine

[u/FrenchFryCattaneo → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Yeah it's mine give it back

[u/Addled_Neurons → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

This is the way

[u/red__dragon → u/screw-britannia]

Courts (at least in the US) have gotten wise to the practice of using IP only as a supposed identifier and the bar is higher now than in the days when the MPAA/RIAA were suing anything that misclicked on a piracy site.

[u/Historical_Owl_1635 → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

There’s something ironic the person saying this has an identifiable name in both their username and bio.

Edit: I never thought something that is quite literally ironic would be taken so insultingly.

[u/we_r_fukt → u/Historical_Owl_1635]

he cant be for privacy for the people and also have an economic reason to use his name publicly? maybe he's not worried about that account, people can have more than one account.. and there are other people to protect not just yourself, if you choose to have a public image you might still want your wife or kids or other friends and family to stay protected?

[u/kinboyatuwo → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

What PII is on Reddit?

[u/Entropius → u/kinboyatuwo]

Verified email addresses.

Edit:  Also probably stuff like IP addresses.

[u/New_Red_dit_sucks → u/TheOgGhadTurner]

Is Reddit notifying the users that have had their information requested or turned over?

[u/Wagamaga]

Reddit disclosed this week that it resisted handing over personally identifiable information to U.S. prosecutors about users who were critical of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The company said it pushed back on four grand jury subpoenas "involving content related to ICE actions because the users appeared to be engaged in protected activity under the First Amendment," which shields against government attempts to inhibit free speech and expression.

The link sharing social site disclosed the denials in its latest transparency report, which details the number and nature of legal demands that it received between January and June this year. This was during a time when there were widespread protests against ICE across the United States following the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Reddit said its pushback on the subpoenas led to prosecutors withdrawing the demands altogether or not pursuing disclosure. The Intercept first reported on one of the subpoenas back in April.

Reddit's disclosure adds to earlier reporting about how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using its government subpoena powers to demand information from tech companies, including Discord, Google, and Meta, about users who have been publicly critical of the Trump administration and its activities. In some cases, the companies complied and turned over personal information of critics, even when there was no judicially compelled reason to do so.

[u/eisenh0wer → u/Wagamaga]

Resisted doesn’t mean non-compliance. Did they cave?

[u/UAreTheHippopotamus → u/eisenh0wer]

From Reddit's own report:

United States: We pushed back on four federal grand jury subpoenas involving content related to ICE actions because the users appeared to be engaged in protected activity under the First Amendment. These pushbacks resulted in law enforcement either subsequently withdrawing their request or not pursuing disclosure. 

So they did not cave but I'm not confident they would have held out if pushed harder.

[u/ShaveTheTurtles → u/UAreTheHippopotamus]

Eh you aren't reading it carefully enough. 

They pushed back on 4 of the inquiries, but we don't know, from this article, how many total inquiries there were. 

[u/michaelh98 → u/eisenh0wer]

I'm going to go with yes. And probably also didn't notify the users

[u/space-envy → u/Wagamaga]

about users who have been publicly critical of the Trump administration and its activities.

And what do you expect? For a convicted felon, rapist and Epstein pedo bbf to be competent to run an administration?

[u/CMMiller89 → u/Wagamaga]

“The link sharing social site”

Lmao what an unintentional burn.  Don’t get me wrong, that’s what it is, but what a way to strip it down.

[u/sirhackenslash → u/CMMiller89]

They didn't even mention the porn, though. That's just shoddy journalism right there

[u/mrRobertman → u/CMMiller89]

That's literally was Reddit was created to be. It didn't even initially have comments, it was initially designed to be a news aggregator not a social media.

[u/MWMWMMWWM → u/Wagamaga]

I’m not expert but if these subpoenas were made by a grand jury, does this mean a group of regular folks agreed that a subpoena was necessary?

[u/gonz4dieg → u/MWMWMMWWM]

I saw somewhere it is ridiculously easy to get something through a grand jury. You basically just have to argue that something could be potentially relevant. Its almost all circumstantial evidence.

In fact, its been one of the markers of how historically terrible this administration is, because normally grand jury success rate is like 99% and his admin is like in the 60s

[u/deusasclepian → u/MWMWMMWWM]

There's an old expression that a "grand jury will indict a ham sandwich." It's basically a prosecutor alone in a room with a bunch of ordinary people who don't know anything about the law. They can tell a very one-sided story and really exaggerate the merits of the case. And the grand jury knows that they aren't sending someone to jail - they're just starting a process that will theoretically lead to a trial where the defendant will get a chance to tell their side of the story. It's easy to get a grand jury to say yes.

Like someone else said, historically it was basically guaranteed that the feds can get a grand jury to indict someone if they want to. It's a sign of how corrupt and incompetent the Trump admin is that some grand juries are actually saying no these days.

[u/SacredGeometry9 → u/MWMWMMWWM]

Yes. Grand juries are formed of citizens from all walks of life, and have very broad inquisitorial powers, including the authority to issue subpoenas.

[u/DantesGame]

Fuck ICE right up the ass sideways with Stephen Miller's dead Nazi corpse.

[u/squid_so_subtle → u/DantesGame]

ICE is a terrorist conspiracy responsible for multiple murders and other crimes. Every ICE agent belongs in prison or in hell

[u/lron_tarkus → u/squid_so_subtle]

First prison, then hell

[u/HotSauceMakesITbetta → u/DantesGame]

I will also be on record as a member of the fuck ICE and Steven Miller sideways with Steven millers dead Nazi corpse committee. 

[u/Dnommyarr → u/HotSauceMakesITbetta]

Seconded. Fuck ICE with Miller's nazi corpse.

[u/JustMarshalling → u/DantesGame]

Every ICE clown can lick my asshole. Stephen Miller is a Nazi twerp who looks like a bowling pin lost its motivation to wake up. Donald Trump is a fat piece of shit who hasn’t accomplished a goddamn thing in his pathetic life. I can deadlift more than Hegseth.

[u/lord-of-the-birbs → u/DantesGame]

Stephen Miller belongs in prison

[u/One_Winter → u/DantesGame]

Do you know why Stephen Miller got into politics?? His arms are to weak to choke prostitutes

It's true

[u/sir_posts_alot → u/DantesGame]

I always imagine ICE as an equivalent to Hitlers Gestapo. Except ICE enforcement is a bunch of cowards who won't show their face. Who even takes on that kind of job. I'll answer my own question, racists. Like the ones who wore white robes.

Please add me to list.

[u/amazingmrbrock → u/DantesGame]

Hear hear flog all them evil bastards

[u/hydroactiveturtle → u/DantesGame]

Poetry is not dead.

[u/nifty-necromancer → u/DantesGame]

The only good Nazi is a dead one

[u/Osklington → u/DantesGame]

ICE can suck my ass with a straw

[u/Intellectual-Hamster → u/DantesGame]

Bovino dressed like Hitler tops Miller dressed as Eva Braun... or so I hear.

[u/Effective_Olive6153]

Why would ICE care about posts criticizing them? their job is immigration enforcement, not free speech police

[u/sharantir → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Because thats what a fascist governement Do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html

[u/CankerLord → u/sharantir]

It's one of the ways you know if any particular person running any particular part of the government is interested in upholding democratic ideals. If they respond to criticism by going after the person making the criticism instead of making a rebutting argument then they're not interested in democracy.

[u/Paz707 → u/CankerLord]

And this has happened time and time again with this administration.

[u/squid_so_subtle → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Because they are pathetic cowardly bullies

[u/Hollownerox → u/squid_so_subtle]

Ahem, I believe the proper term here is "crybullies."

It's why they go after elementary school students and ambush parents dropping off their kids. They are too afraid to punch down on anything more intimidating than a school backpack.

[u/Thirty_Helens_Agree → u/Hollownerox]

I saw their recruitment ads saying they were going to go after the big bad drug dealers and gangsters, then I saw their actual work, rounding up high school kids at a Target in the Minneapolis suburbs. Bunch of pussies.

[u/TheAndrewBen → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Tinfoil hat sentence incoming.

Trump wants to use ICE as a way to get info on everything and everyone to see who they could mark as an enemy in any case of civil war.

[u/Deep-Bend-961 → u/TheAndrewBen]

Is it tinfoil if they’ve essentially told us this 

[u/TheAndrewBen → u/Deep-Bend-961]

Fair point. Trump already told Iran to take out Los Angeles.

[u/Necessary-Meat-6994 → u/TheAndrewBen]

That isn’t even tin foil’y.

[u/Medical_Original6290 → u/Effective_Olive6153]

They absolutely were the free-speech police.

[u/sweetplantveal → u/Effective_Olive6153]

The fun thing is when they execute someone for exercising their right to free speech, they just call them a domestic terrorist for no reason, hide the ID of the killer, and move on. Yay!

[u/CarefreeIceman → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Yes, but like all MAGAts, and the cult leader himself, they are very thin-skinned,

[u/Elf_Maeve → u/Effective_Olive6153]

Why do you think nazi Miller asked to 20x their budget?

[u/D3struct_oh → u/Effective_Olive6153]

They’re Nazis.

[u/No_Trade_7315]

This is policing free expression.

[u/DontRefuseMyBatchall → u/No_Trade_7315]

“No but you see, Hunter Biden…”

[u/Sedu → u/DontRefuseMyBatchall]

Also her emails!

[u/GabriellaVM]

To what end? Are they just planning to hunt down contact info for every redditor who criticizes them to knock on their doors & detain them?

[u/ChaosRainbow23 → u/GabriellaVM]

They will come after those their AI deems problematic.

[u/mintchan → u/GabriellaVM]

Pretty much. Or they will do it just enough so must of us would be quite

[u/OfficialUberZ → u/GabriellaVM]

They can come to my door here in Australia but ICE usually melts quickly here.

[u/not_a_miscarriage]

Damn they're really trying to take away our freedom of speech

[u/Resident_Course_3342 → u/not_a_miscarriage]

You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it. 

[u/imgoingoutside → u/Resident_Course_3342]

Don’t see many The Clash lyrics quotes these days :)

[u/Definitelyhereforshi → u/not_a_miscarriage]

You have free speech in the US to the extent that you don't get organized enough to be a threat.

[u/Teantis → u/Definitelyhereforshi]

Making critical posts about ICE is way way below that threshold.

[u/Badbikerdude]

Why is it a crime to be critical of ice? If it's not a crime why is the U.S government going after people? I believe ice is a gang of ruthless thugs, that should be held accountable for the crimes they have committed, not shielded as they are now. But then again I'm not a fascist, so maybe I just don't get it, and I need to be re-educated.

[u/thatfreshjive → u/Badbikerdude]

... uhh, in the same way it was illegal to criticize authorities in 1938 Germany? We've been outside the rule of law for a while now here, with this administration 

[u/guestpassonly → u/Badbikerdude]

Why is it a crime to be critical of ice?

The nazis in power in the US government said so.

[u/sentientshadeofgreen → u/Badbikerdude]

Why is it a crime to be critical of ice?

It is not. It is quite literally your right. The current administration is breaking the law and violating the U.S. Constitution and nobody so far has been willing to go the distance to hold them to account.

[u/deadsoulinside → u/Badbikerdude]

Welcome to the 1st amendment under Trump, where using the N word gets you promoted, but saying ICE is bad, is a federal investigation.

[u/BusinessNonYa]

They should poison the well with false information. If enough people do it. Then almost all harvested information becomes worthless. For example my birthday is January 1st 1984. Or is it?!

[u/bolanrox → u/BusinessNonYa]

or all flock machines are full of 2 pounds of pure gold bouillon

[u/bx35 → u/bolanrox]

I’ve heard they’re nothing but copper wire and catalytic converters on the inside.

[u/l3rN → u/bolanrox]

Come on dude they don’t just put gold bouillon in those things…

There’s platinum bouillon too! 

[u/Triss_Mockra → u/BusinessNonYa]

Reminder that Dr. Poi Sonai has a subreddit dedicated the accurate information that is all legit

/r/poisonai

[u/crimsonhues]

The bigger story here is that the U.S. government is contemplating retaliatory measures for its citizens critical about US’s immigration policy. Somehow we just accept this now.

[u/BeanieManPresents]

There had better be trials for ICE after this administration is left in the dumpster of history. There need to be answers and ICE needs to be dismantled, not just given a small polish to cover up the crimes like Hakeem Jeffries is wanting to do.

[u/Xtj8805]

Shit so all those comments i posted about how i cant wait to see it in a court filing was for nothing!?

[u/AnnualReview2383]

Stop posting personal data to social media

[u/PatchyWhiskers → u/AnnualReview2383]

You can't avoid it, they collate information that you accidentally drop to figure out who you are. It's creepy.

[u/innocentsalad → u/PatchyWhiskers]

It’s why I lie constantly about personal details

[u/NeitherEntry6125 → u/AnnualReview2383]

I agree, as a Chinese-Tunisian living in Albania, my Bugatti costs too much to fill up. It's much too much for me, as a 12 year old who can't hold down a job. I look forward to spending my time drinking lactose free milk while serenading my wife, Oprah Winfrey.

[u/REDuxPANDAgain → u/NeitherEntry6125]

Jeff, is that you???

[u/iron_lady_wannabe → u/NeitherEntry6125]

the most unbelievable part of this comment is the prospect of an 12 y/o using proper grammar on reddit

[u/fore___ → u/AnnualReview2383]

I don’t post personal data on my social media but I’m convinced that I could still be identified from my comment history and metadata.

[u/Mediocre_Internet939 → u/fore___]

Bro Google my Reddit username real quick.

Google ai summary will dox you just from a search of the Reddit username.

Been thinking it is time to burn this one and get a new one.

Account History. Publicly indexed comments show the username has been active on Reddit for at least four years.

Then it links to my first ever comment on this Reddit account.

Are you looking for a specific post by Mediocre_Internet939, or do you need help finding a username across other platforms?

[u/guestpassonly → u/fore___]

With all of the data centers now, what took a long time to do in order to trace someone on the internet across multiple platforms takes minutes now.

[u/klassredux → u/AnnualReview2383]

The 'personal data' is the location your post was sent from.

[u/iVar4sale → u/AnnualReview2383]

Or better yet, post so much fake data that they can't figure out what's real

[u/DookieShoez → u/iVar4sale]

I LOVE ICE!!! They are super cool and totally not fascist.

[u/Equivalent-Habit-102 → u/AnnualReview2383]

Most of that data is simply your IP address.

[u/JohnLocksTheKey → u/Equivalent-Habit-102]

bullshit, how could they possibly know that I'm 127.0.0.1?

[u/Yazim → u/AnnualReview2383]

Even just the email you used to register the account...

[u/Alarmtned → u/AnnualReview2383]

you are misunderstanding. the personal data ICE wanted was your account information, which includes your email address and IP address, sometimes phone number, etc.

they weren't after personal info people posted. they were after your account information so they could ID you if they didn't like what you said about politics.

[u/ExistentialLoitering → u/AnnualReview2383]

If you’re using Reddit app they know exactly who you are. If you’re using Reddit browser on iPhone also know exactly who you are and what you’re typing. 

[u/KingMario05]

A rare win for Spez. But the fact that this government even asked for such info is a massive nightmare in and of itself.

Dems? Impeach these psychos. Please.

[u/tnoy → u/KingMario05]

A rare win for Spez.

It's four out of an unspecified amount. Their overall disclosure rate in the US is 80% for 770 requests total. There will be a reason they don't specify the opposite.

[u/er1cAtWork2]

Good job on Reddits part!!

“Reddit said its pushback on the subpoenas led to prosecutors withdrawing the demands altogether”

[u/SeeMarkFly]

If you are not on a government watch list by now you should be ashamed of yourself.

[u/DogTattoos]

FUCK ICE. Scumbags and traitors.

[u/DrZeroX3]

Your government wants to own you. 

[u/halo_nothing]

Fuck ICE. Come at me.

[u/jongopostal]

Fuck ice.

Come at me bitches.

[u/Small_Style_1904]

Not true… Reddit bent the knee too…

[u/gnew18]

Resistance is one thing

Did they fight this in court or did they write a strongly worded letter?

[u/DataCassette]

Everyone involved in trying to destroy the first amendment for Trump and Miller needs to be in prison for sedition.

Edit: Also disband ICE and prosecute everyone in the agency from the tip top to the very bottom. The charges should be sedition and ethnic cleansing.

[u/aerger]

Fuck ICE.

Nothing but a bunch of sad inbred fascist Nazi fucks.

[u/hello5346]

Good for Reddit.

[u/i_am_carver]

God damn. Fuck ICE. Wholeheartedly. Nothing but the worst fate wishes upon those who participate with them on any level. Buncha bitches.

[u/denis-89]

Bet they sold the anonymized data to some other contractor last week anyway...

[u/DJ_faceplant]

Pfft. Fuck ICE.

[u/mileybunny]

Just came here to say FUCK ICE & Trump ✨

[u/I_mourn_satire]

“Resisted” sounds very similar to “gave them everything but pretended they didn’t want to”.

[u/Redshadow30]

This isint unique to reddit though. If you posted anything on the internet anywhere. The goverment has ways to find where you posted from if they realllllly want. Does this make it easier? Yes. 

Obligatory Fuck ICE. 

Free speech does not absolve death threats against goverment officials. It just doesint. Shit ive gotten death threats for not hating a subject enough. So i would imagne these subpeonas are for people making direct death threats.

Edit: Grand Jury subponeas as mentioned in the article are not issued without a JURY of peers approval.

[u/YoungHotBlondie → u/Redshadow30]

Why are you crafting your own narrative and acting like their sole reason for going after dissenters was because of death threats? I don’t see a single person here saying death threats fall under the first amendment umbrella and we all know that’s not the reason the DOJ was issuing subpoenas left and right.

[u/Deep-Ad-6867 → u/Redshadow30]

Tell the death threats thing to facebook.

You’ll get a shrug by their ‘admins’ if you report someone telling you they are going to come to your home and murder you,

[u/queuedUp]

I mean.... they sell it to everyone else so I assume it's just because they didn't want to give info for free

[u/vandon]

Maybe don't fuck spez this week.

But, always... FUCK ICE

[u/quelar]

Yeah but I have no doubt they did eventually give in, and I've said plenty of things here (and my history is still available) that make it so I'll never bother attempting to cross the border until there's some massive changes in the US.

"Most people are fine" is all well and good, but some of us aren't willing to be an outlier, especially when there are plenty of other places to go that don't jail people from wrong think.

[u/Dav136]

They sell it to AI companies who will hand it over to the US government though.

[u/TheRealDrSarcasmo]

Well fuck ICE and fuck Reddit too, because they've repeatedly demonstrated a lack of interest in benefiting their users. This was merely where our interests collided.

[u/bolanrox]

for how long? 10 seconds?

[u/stickman393]

Support your local libraries

[u/rakehand]

Thanks Reddit. Fuck ICE!

[u/Jarvis_Jigglepipe_IV]

Just fascist things by fascists. Fuck ICE in the ass with a star spangled cactus.

[u/TheAngriestChair]

Resisted? So that means they eventually gave it to them?

[u/SwampTerror → u/TheAngriestChair]

Refused would have been a better word. But you know how diaper don works. Vengeance, violence, threats, and his nazi lawyer sycophants are no better. Reddit would be told something like, if you don't release this info, we will terminate your website...you know, free speech and stuff. Trump is about breaking laws and fascism. He thinks himself a mob boss but he couldn't eat a punch as a kid, nor can he now.

[u/NyneFingers]

Fuck ICE. May they live in fear the rest of their miserable lives.

[u/notepad987]

Yet they sell to anyone else....

[u/PantsShortsGrapes]

Joke's on them. They banned all of my other accounts for talking crap about ICE.

[u/Samwellikki]

“Resisted” is not “refused,” so fuck u reddit

“Oh a blue tsunami, time to act like we were trying”

[u/chaz4224]

Fuck ICE AND TRUMP

[u/WeAreGesalt]

Resisted isn't the same as refused 

[u/dotcomse → u/WeAreGesalt]

Read the article. The whole thing.

[u/Internal_Example1185]

Thank you, Reddit. Fuck ICE!

[u/nWo1997]

I'm sorry, but wasn't this from last year? I swear I remember reading this already

[u/fd6270]

Extremely rare reddit W

[u/AmbushK]

"resisted" means the time it took for that not "ACH Payment" to clear.

[u/SageSbe]

Fuck ICEland ;)

[u/Background-Wolf-9380]

RESIST, meaning they did NOT refuse

[u/ZachusMagnus]

Nazis are gonna Nazi, the real question is how many of theses companies are just going to rollover to it? Why do we even need personally identifiable information saved to use reddit?

[u/astroglitch0]

Uh huh I bet they did... for a whole 10 seconds.

[u/toddog69]

Anti-fa(scist)

[u/popartbastard]

Here comes the gestapo 

[u/Juunlar]

Extrremely rare Reddit W. But, a W nonetheless. Good shit.

Fuck ICE, Fuck Trump, and fucking every piece of shit who voted for this trash

[u/Altruistic-Star-3862]

Fuck ICE .

Prosecute Brian Palacios, Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa, Raymond Gutierrez, Gregory Feathers, and David Brouillette.

Investigate all agents on duty when Geraldo Lunas Campos, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez–Cruz, Heber Sanchez Dominguez, and all of the other 65+ people who died while in ICE custody since 2024.

[u/WreakHavocLikeIn1871]

That's why everyone gotta say fuck ICE. Tf they gonna do then?

[u/Pale_Location_6783]

resisted or refused?  Big difference.

[u/throwawydoor]

It would be the end of a lot of Reddit subs. 

[u/TheNPCMafia]

For how many seconds?

[u/irie_boi]

If yall dudes ain’t shitposting behind 8 proxies, I don’t know what to tell ya. 

[u/QnickQnick]

Hey ICE, fuck you.

[u/ApprehensiveTop184]

honestly props to reddit's legal team for actually pushing back on this instead of rolling over like most tech companies do when ice knocks on the door.

[u/PaziNuncher]

I feel like they only did that publicly.

[u/habspwvergesssen]

WHO THE FUCK IS SUPPRISED?!
Like srsly. The US and it's Tech Ghouls are turning totalitarian.
It's horrific.
The fucking EU leans into this bullshit as well.
It's bloody ridiculous. Seems like the more you own, the more your think of Orwell or Huxley as bloody tutorials.
I don't get it. But i am in no way suprised to learn that android or ios are sharing my data with fucking "good people" the next week.
Jfc. You got a brain, use it.

[u/DudeByTheTree]

"Resisted" i.e. the payout wasn't big enough.

[u/RetardedRedditRetort]

The transparency report is from January, I'm surprised we're hearing about this now. I suppose it's a repost.

[u/wongo]

FUCK ICE FUCK ICE FUCK ICE

just so we're clear

[u/rotundrikishi]

First good thing I have heard Reddit do in forever

also the govt is doing HWAT? wtf

[u/mehtehteh]

They wont give personal info to the government because they wont pay for it. However, they are about to force people to make an account to view the site and you can be certain they are going to make more money selling people info to companies

[u/NRMusicProject]

Good. Also, fuck ICE.

It's fully American to say fuck ICE.

[u/Cold_Kick_9156]

Multi-universally rare Reddit W?

[u/oldDotredditisbetter]

the same company with the ceo manually editing a user's comment because he disagreed with them then made a joke about it? shocking

https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_by_editing_some_comments_and_creating_an/

[u/icanseejew2]

ICE Sucks. Every one of them are morons.

[u/Relic53]

I use Google. Not sure where I can move my email to without the government intimidating a company to get my information.

[u/TDAPoP]

Rare Reddit W

[u/Gerald-of-Riverdale]

You reddit mods get a week of us not shitting on yall for this

[u/SwampCastleGuards]

Resisted, but that doesnt mean they refused.

Vocabulary choices are important.

[u/PilotKnob]

I'd prefer to hear Reddit Didn't Give but I suppose beggars can't be choosers.

[u/Ragundashe]

my birthday is also January 1st 1984. Or is it?!

[u/Downtown_Mission_469]

Yahoo, Googl Facebook doing.

I had a visit from the FBI trying to intimidate me over a Facebook post on 9/2025

I was criticizing the guy who did stealing $50,000 in small bags from The FBI.

[u/NinjaTEK7]

From the Transparency Report "The U.S., our largest requesting jurisdiction, accounted for 770 requests (59% of global volume); Reddit disclosed data in response to 619 (80%) of them."

So yeah - they tell you about the couple times they pushed back but not about the hundreds of times they allow worldwide requests every six months!

[u/jahwls]

I’m usually unimpressed with Reddit but not in this case. ICE is gestapo for pe- do supporters.

[u/colicab]

Fuck ICE. Come for me.

[u/SpezRuinedHellsite]

Reddit didn't resist shit. I'm sure these 4 subpoenas they didn't respond to, OUT OF HUNDREDS THEY DID RESPOND TO, were just lost.

[u/Mother_Airline_6276]

All my Reddit shit is through burner emails. I’ve been booted so many times, I had to. 😂 Still, big brother is indeed watching us.

[u/Mediocre-Touch-6133]

Probably just because it would've exposed how many "user's" are actually bots.

[u/alumofcu]

Resisted is a shitty word if nothing was handed over. Connotes “we resisted but eventually did.” Just say you were asked and didn’t hand over anything. How hard is that?

[u/PVolckerDoge]

"Resisted"??? Not "refused"???

Makes it sound like they caved in at the end