• arotrios@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    So, ICE is trying to dox folks:

    The effort has swept up U.S. citizens and activist groups that track ICE activity, with contractors assembling dossiers that can include a poster’s name, birth date, employer, Social Security number and vehicle records. To identify anonymous accounts, the Department of Homeland Security has sent hundreds of subpoenas to social media companies, and recently escalated to grand jury subpoenas that are harder to fight.

    Meanwhile…

    The administration now treats organized doxxing of officers as domestic terrorism, a label it has stretched to cover filming agents at work. ICE spending on surveillance tools and consultants hit $258 million in Trump’s first full year back, a 57% jump.

    I’d point out the hypocrisy if it weren’t so depressingly obvious.

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    4 hours ago

    More accurate headline:

    [Fascist Paramilitary known for constitutional violations, murders, and abductions called] ICE [in] hunt to unmask online accounts [for critical free speech use]

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    Interesting. We have the first amendment which protects our speech (as long as we don’t advocate violence), so if we’re critical of ICE killing Pretti and Good, for example, then the government pays contractors to censor or otherwise harass us?

    All hail King Trump?

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      We have the first amendment

      Lol. Stupid Americans voted to give total power to a party that doesn’t give a FUUUUUUUUCK about the Constitution.

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      While I agree, I don’t think the Fediverse will save us from the erosion of our rights.