Kat Lonsdorf
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Aug
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A lot of it, the law is playing catch up on.
And so a lot of these questions that we have about where the legality is, is something that's going to have to be figured out in a courtroom.
Yeah, we absolutely are, specifically on social media.
And we're seeing that play out a lot through something called administrative subpoenas, which DHS is sending to tech companies like Google or Meta, demanding personal information to unmask anonymous accounts, specifically anonymous accounts that are tracking ICE activity or are critical of ICE.
Administrative subpoenas can be issued by a federal agency like DHS without a judge or a grand jury.
They've typically been used with tech companies in the past involving serious offenses like child sexual abuse material.
But now privacy and civil rights experts say that we've seen a big uptick in them being sent to tech companies to threaten free speech.
We talked to Steve Loney, an attorney at the ACLU in Pennsylvania, who has represented several people who have been subpoenaed in this way in recent months.
And he told us that a pattern is starting to emerge.
Yeah, I mean, that's a good question.
Again, it's something that I think the courts are figuring out.
And like Jude said, every time that we know of that someone has challenged one of these administrative subpoenas, specifically in regards to them speaking out against ICE online –
In a court, DHS has withdrawn the subpoena almost immediately, within days or weeks.
And so, you know, the legality of it hasn't been challenged in court because DHS is withdrawing these subpoenas.
You know, for example, I talked to one person.
His name is Sherman Austin.
He lives in Long Beach, California.
He runs an account called Stop Ice Net.
It posts a lot of posts, you know, critical of ice.
And he shared a post back in September saying,
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