DHS asked for their names and other identifying details from tech companies, according to The New York Times.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months.
Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying detail for accounts that have criticized the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency or have reported the location of its agents.
Google, Meta and Reddit have complied with some of the requests
In a truly healthy open source project there are many maintainers from a diverse set of countries such that no one person can stop the project, at best they could stop one fork, but others would still exist. Unfortunately far far too many projects have a single maintainer. The open source world has a severe problem with an unacceptable bus factor on many foundational projects. It’s hard enough finding one person to maintain some of these things, finding more is a significant problem.