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The Trump administration is weaponizing administrative subpoenas to demand that tech companies hand over the personal information of users who criticize the government online. Know your rights if your information is subpoenaed.

aclu.orgWhen the Government Demands Info About Your Online AccountsThe First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".

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We certainly have rights. 1st Amendment etc. But when the govt sweeps you up and off to another country it doesn’t really matter. Does it? The process, even when not covert and clandestine, it is still expensive, exhausting and debilitating. And that is the point.

You can see why I'm so concerned with this "age-verification" (read "Online ID") matter. I can only imagine this could be used for retaliatory purposes, and I could also imagine the means to deplatform people would be quite possible too.