Ryan Devereaux

Well, thanks so much for having me.

Yeah, we published a story last week on The Intercept, which looks at this case that you described where a person had been posting on Reddit.

The government didn't identify exactly what the offending post was, but their lawyers have surmised that it was likely to do with ICE.

and the shooting of Renee Goode in Minneapolis.

A bit of backstory over the past year since the Trump administration came in, they've been sending a ton of what are known as administrative subpoenas to different digital media companies.

The big social media companies, Meta, X, and Reddit.

and requesting data on anonymous accounts that post related to immigration enforcement.

These are accounts that are sometimes tracking ICE operations in the streets, naming agents who are often masked.

The government claims that this is doxing and that this is a threat to officer safety.

But in a lot of cases, what we've seen are

instances where individuals seem to be doing nothing more than venting about their frustration with the federal government, and they get hit with one of these subpoenas.

In this particular case, it originated in the Northern District of California.

An ICE agent from Virginia had requested information and about a month's worth of really extensive electronic data on a user.

The agent didn't say exactly what had

tipped them off, what caused this.

Reddit alerted, which they often do in these sort of instances, the user that there had been a request for their data.

The user then contacted a group called the CLDC.

It's a center for civil liberties defense, civil liberties defense center in Northern California in the district where these tech companies are based.

They filed a motion to quash this administrative subpoena.

What these advocates have found is that when they actually enter these motions to quash in federal court, ICE is generally backing down in these cases.