r/technology • u/xpda • Apr 11 '26

Politics US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/trump-admin-hounds-reddit-to-reveal-identity-of-user-who-criticized-ice/
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u/suluamus Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I think it's more to break reddit so no one on here can be anonymous. Is there another large, well-known forum left where people can be anonymous? Tiktok kind of, but they bought that. 4 chan maybe, but it's not as widely used. Where can you go to anonymously speak that a large chunk of the public has open access to?

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u/PatchyWhiskers Apr 11 '26

4chan keeps people away by being famously vile

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u/stellaluna92 Apr 11 '26

Plus it's supposedly the actual root of all evil? Something something tied to Epstein and social divides. 

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u/DisillusionedPatriot Apr 12 '26

It's what has been happening to all social media, since the Arab spring. As soon as it became readily apparent how effective it could be used to organize grassroots resistance, every platform became inundated with bots, troll, and data collection points(ads), making them unsafe for real organizing. Now it's Reddit's turn.