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[–] 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Wtf is a secret grand jury? Is it anything like a nazi tribunal?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The US has a long history of secret court systems

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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    Established: October 25, 1978

    Because of the sensitive nature of its business, the court is a "secret court" meaning its hearings are closed to the public. While records of the proceedings are kept, they also are unavailable to the public, although copies of some records with classified information redacted have been made public.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court#Secrecy

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

    The thing that pisses me off the most about these courts is that they completely violate the idea of a fair trial where you are innocent until proven guilty. The Judges in these courts seem to be openly biased toward government entities and the trials they oversee are mostly for show. They deliberately set up the defendant to loose by doing crazy things like denying a defendant access to legal council.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone know the reddit username in question, or the offending posts? I feel the best way to fight this is to broadcast whatever the admin has found so offensive everywhere. There's plenty of ice/trump hate on Reddit - why was this so triggering? An accusation too close to home, maybe?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    How soon before alt social media is targeted like this?

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    [–] 26 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety

    Yeah, doxing isn't a crime, and while many times it can be characterized as a "dick move", I don't think that really applies to identifying public servants that shouldn't be masked in the first place, and are actively engaging in oppression and unregulated violence.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Hmm, yes, but don't you see? Mr. Big Man ICE Agent wants to beat you into unconsciousness to show you how tough and scary he is. If you know who he is, you could get revenge for your cracked skull and broken eye when he's feeling tired and unalert one day. And the Enforcer class reserves the right to beat you to death for fun, not the other way around.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    How is criticizing ICE doxxing? Also, doxxing is a crime unofficially. You are exposing a person's personal information so that they can be harmed.

    What the administration wants to do is violate the 1st amendment further and dox the redditor.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Apparently the comment in question also identified an ICE agent. Which shouldn't count as doxxing. We pay their salary we deserve to know who they are.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    EXACTLY. These motherfuckers should all be as easy to find and look up as any officer, or seeing real estate records, etc.

    We PAY these motherfuckers salaries. Why they are permitted to run around unidentified and have zero accountability is just plain wild.

    If they knew what they were doing was moral and legal, they wouldn't have this supposed "need" to be masked up. They are not masked up at the airport for some reason.

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    I thought doxxing someone was doubleplusungood, but the administration wants to punish someone and doxx them for naming public workers? There is nothing to "doxx" when you work for the public.

    Or is that only for pieces of shit like the libsoftiktok lady? Remember all the conservative tears over that bitch?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    We will all be headed for the camps.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Wow they're getting dragged to court for that. Insane overreach those comments are mild.

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    [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That's gonna be a lot of grand juries if they try to find everyone talking shit about the orange imbecile.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    totally impartial potential juror ready for service ✋

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. John Doe informed the court that they had nothing to do with the kind of activities at issue in the near-century-old statute, which governs boat show sales, wild animal imports, forfeited wines and spirits, and cross-border trade in other goods.

    Leave it to this clown show of an admin to cite an abomination of a law which pushed the US economy into the deepest depths of the Great Depression in their attempts to silence critics. Fate loves irony, I guess.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago
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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Nazis doing nazi things. Would be funny, if it wasn't such a effing tragedy.

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    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.

    Since President Trump returned to office last year, federal agents have increasingly demanded social media companies reveal the users behind anonymous accounts critical of his immigration crackdown, expressing particular interest in those that identify employees of the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE or share real-time information on enforcement activity. The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety, but they have also targeted social media users seemingly doing nothing more than expressing anger at the government.

    Greene knew of no examples during the recent wave of immigration enforcement-related investigations in which a leading tech company has been called to appear before one of the secret panels. Free speech protections are at their weakest in the context of a grand jury, he explained: The proceedings are not adversarial; their purpose is to permit a prosecutor to file charges.

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