Ryan Devereaux

It is a strong indication that these companies, Reddit in particular, but also Meta and Axe are receiving a lot of requests on accounts.

Requests for data are not unusual for these companies from federal law enforcement.

Normally, Reddit will get a number of requests for child endangerment type of cases.

What's different in this moment is a ton of requests from the government about anonymous accounts that appear critical of the administration's immigration enforcement regime.

Yeah, so NSPM 7 was a national security sort of memo that went out to all of the sort of ecosystem of federal law enforcement agencies, sort of outlining what the administration's law enforcement priorities and agenda are.

And as you indicated, folks can look it up.

There's a whole list of sort of criteria that the administration is asking to

ordering its agents to be on the lookout for.

A lot of this stuff has to do with being critical of immigration policies.

Anything that threatens traditional, and this is

not my sort of description of what, this is not my interpretation, it's literally what it says.

It's sort of anyone that's critical of traditional American values, sort of Christian traditional American values, critical of immigration enforcement.

That's the sort of broad umbrella that the administration has tasked its federal law enforcement agencies to be sort of

targeting and zeroing in on and paying attention to.

I think what we've seen, and this is pretty clear at this point, is obviously the administration's immigration agenda is quite unpopular politically right now.

In addition to a really intense crackdown on undocumented people themselves, the administration has widened the aperture to include critics

of its policies.

We saw this playing out obviously very dramatically in Minneapolis where I was earlier this year.

I think that these cases like we're discussing here in this instance of a Reddit user being targeted with administrative subpoena and then the government getting that batted down and turning around and

filing an order that a major, one of the largest tech companies around to appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC is part of the same sort of project.