Reddit says First Amendment rights protect it from having to disclose users' info.
  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    That’s not a lawsuit they would even attempt, as it would get immediately thrown out.

    People use the threat of lawsuit as an intimidation tactic all the time.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        2 years ago

        So they would send random DMs with pictures, to threaten lawsuits they couldn’t enforce, to achieve what exactly?

        They wouldn’t have to send random DM’s if they got the IP addresses more directly, as the article describes.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          The comment I originally replied to:

          They would just have to start DMing us meme images hosted on a server they control, and they’d get a list of IPs. All we’d have to do is look.