Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
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Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 hour ago

    I’m 100% certain Reddit also fully cooperating with them. They run CBP recruitment ads. Fuck them, fascist collaborators

    • Null User Object@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      41 minutes ago

      You don’t honestly think that DHS doesn’t know Lemmy exists, do you? If they’re monitoring Reddit, you’d have to be a fool to not realize that they’re probably here, too.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      39 minutes ago

      I’d argue it was pretty shit for a long while. The fact that r/conservative with the vile spew they have is still allowed is all you need to understand.

      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        If it gets too bad, just move on to the next thing.

        Internet forums have been a thing since for decades, and they will continue long after Reddit and Lemmy are forgotten

    • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      So if you do something like call for a protest you’ll need to use a foreign VPN and a burner account.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    4 hours ago

    Reddit has been leaking information to the feds for ages. They had a warrant canary that is no more, it has ceased to be, and bereft of life, it rests in peace since 2015: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/bye-bye-birdie-reddits-warrant-canary-disappears

    It has been a while since spez sold himself out completely. Leaking user information to special interests is part of the silent agreement that has kept them from being under investigation, but it also has gotten him invited to the sort of Epstein gatherings that other Silicon Valley tech bros have gotten invited to.

  • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    6 hours ago

    Is that why reddit was IP blocking people from seeing content even though they weren’t logged in?

  • ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.orgEnglish
    43·
    8 hours ago

    Got permabanned for up voting a post about ice having their secret identities found out as it was ‘inciting violence’. Because law enforcement should be protected from public backlash as the piss on the Constitution and practice illegal acts on people, it seems to reddit mods.

  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    11 hours ago

    I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn’t trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      7 hours ago

      I tend to think that – for myself for sure but probably most other people – after a decade plus on Reddit, you’ve likely said and posted enough stuff that somebody could follow the breadcrumbs back to you. Theyd have to really want to and it would take a lot of reading your posts, but it could probably be done. Anonymity doesn’t exist without a vpn, and even then you’re probably still identifiable. Don’t say, post or do anything on the internet that youre not willing to defend/pay for in real life.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        I’ve always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don’t make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You’d have to be very interested in me specifically and I’ve always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.

        • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah, but the website owners have access to a lot more information than is just available publicly. You probably could be identified by a fed if reddit gave them that information.

          You might not be worth the effort, especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.

          • ∃∀λ@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Also, other sites on the Net can collate links posted to reddit and the users and times that they were posted with users accessing pages on their own site. For example, if you’ve posted a sufficient number of youtube links, youtube can possibly link your reddit account and youtube account, say, as belonging to the same person. Just about any popular site can link your reddit account with your IP address. And your facebook account with your IP address. Etc. And thereby link reddit accounts with facebook accounts in cases with long-lived IP addresses. If X is a scrapable site on which users with fixed pseudonyms can submit links and Y is a site popular enough and has enough content, then Y can collate user accounts on X with IP addresses. This is not to say anyone is doing this. There are not many sites that meet the criteria to be a Y. I would say it includes mainstream news sites. The authorities could compromise some of the Ys or create their own through astroturf and thereby link users on the Xs with IP addresses and then with location.

            These days, this might be a bit harder because reddit closed up when the AI companies started scraping. I don’t know the situation with Facebook with regard to scraping. If it’s scrapable, they’ve got your name linked to your reddit account.

            What I’ve said about reddit equally applies to lemmy, even more so because lemmy is open by principle.

          • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            5 hours ago

            especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down.

            ding ding ding

            I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren’t that great. I’m more likely to get grabbed randomly.