administrative subpoenas
They have no judicial weight behind it and yet these corporations are collaborating.
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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While we may feel smug in our federated social media, I wonder how far those protections even go. I guess it really depends where our instance is, and who they host with.
I contribute to open source by helping to write documentation. I'm not a coder. I work in marketing and data science.
I have seen open-source people fold for little reasons. Like a small sum of money, to false promises, to minor threats like legalese BS or threatening takedown. I heard of one project that took down everything the moment a small business sent them an email warning about trademark infringement. They didn't even contest it - they just disappeared to avoid even a bit of a lawsuit.
If you follow local news in the US, there have been a lot of politicians (mostly democratic ones) who have sued because of harassment campaigns and even death threats to their family and friends.
My take is that most people who volunteer aren't going to risk their livelihood. Nor should we expect them to.
The best they can do is build enough layers of obscurity, trust that their providers will also protect their identity, and keep themselves safe.
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.
i guess we're no longer even mentioning the first amendment in articles like this...
the constitution is toilet paper for the rich people. It means nothing anymore.
Then laws mean nothing. Badges means nothing. Just violence and those willing to wield it to meet their ends. If the social contract is no longer in play it's only survival from here on out.
Always has been
While I'm here, add me to the list.
Fuck ICE.
I am absolutely shocked that Zuckerberg doesn't have his users' backs. Man of the People my ass.
So what’s the over under on lemmy world already complying?